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    Billboard Empire: Poems of Philadelphia
    Billboard Empire: Poems of Philadelphia
    Billboard Empire: Poems of Philadelphia
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    Billboard Empire: Poems of Philadelphia

    By Ernest Yates

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    This is Ernest Yatess tenth volume of poems and the seventh volume in an ongoing series based on his wanderings through the streets of Philadelphia. In this volume, Yates views the city as a world of found wordswords that act as messages of desire. Billboard ads epitomize that world, but the city, as a place made by humans for the purpose of human habitation, projects our human desires through all words, even the most ordinary and common, that refer to the city. Conceived in this way, Philadelphia, like every city, veers toward dreamscape, where words enact the dramatic relationship between impersonal urban phenomena and the very human desires of citizens.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 16, 2016
    ISBN9781524555009
    Billboard Empire: Poems of Philadelphia
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    Ernest Yates

    Born in Ancon, Panama, and raised in New Orleans, Ernest Yates obtained a doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived and worked in the Philadelphia area for fifty years. Mr. Yates has published poetry in dozens of literary magazines and journals, and has won the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, among other poetry awards. For further information, please consult Mr. Yates’s website? ernestyates.com

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