Trials and Tribulations - Softcover

Kunstler, William M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394620607 ISBN 13: 9780394620602

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1985

Synopsis

Poems deal with legal issues, controversial figures in American politics, civil rights workers, protesters, and dissenters

About this title

From Library Journal:

Kunstler has served as defense counsel in many celebrated cases during the past quarter of a century. In Trials and Tribulations , the counselor also reveals himself to be a fair-to-middling poet, offering sonnets that sum up his experience with the law and the people he has encountered along the way. In all, there are 102 poems, each with an informative headnote, on such topics as jury selection, cross-examination, the Chicago Eight, Attica, Jack Ruby, Kent State, H. Rap Brown, J. Edgar Hoover, and Rosa Parks. Kunstler's verse is sharp and it can cut; for example, the Jane Fonda sonnet concludes ``Strange that this voice that once mouthed urgent pleas/ Now teaches women how to bend their knees.'' Recommended. Kenneth F. Kister, Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394620607
• ISBN 13: 9780394620602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64