Ten Commandments
Knopf, March 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #643122
ISBN: 0375401377
Stated First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with minimal shelfwear, else a nice, clean copy. // Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers betrayal, adultery, murder, or greed. J. D. McClatchy draws on intimate autobiographical details, and on a range of historical incidents that includes an eerie account of Proust in a brothel and a chilling glimpse of Eichmann in Argentina. Sideshow freaks, snipers in Vietnam, Auden's dictionary, whirling dervishes, motel and mammogram, slave and saint - this book is a cabinet of moral curiosities, a collage of emotional astonishments.' -- publisher.
Price: $15.00