Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
Book by Richard Brautigan
0-385-28863-8Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt is Richard Brautigan's eighth poetry publication and includes 58 poems. The title of the book echoes a 1942 San Francisco Chronicle headline describing a successful operation by Rommel during the North African Campaign of World War II.[1] The six line title poem, reminiscent of Ozymandias, uses this headline to examine the transitory nature of both human endeavor and the reader of the poem. The photograph on the cover of the first edition is of model Beverly Allen and was taken by Edmund Shea in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.[1]
Rommel is dead.
His army has joined the quicksand legions
of history where the battle is always
a metal echo saluting a rusty shadow.
His tanks are gone.
How's your ass?
"Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt" (1970)[1]
References
- ^ a b c Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt entry on Brautigan website
External links
- Entry on Brautigan.net
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- A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964)
- Trout Fishing in America (1967)
- In Watermelon Sugar (1968)
- The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)
- The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974)
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (1975)
- Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976)
- Dreaming of Babylon (1977)
- So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (1982)
- An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1994)
- The Return of the Rivers (1958)
- The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958)
- Lay the Marble Tea (1959)
- The Octopus Frontier (1960)
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967)
- Please Plant This Book (1968)
- The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968)
- Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970)
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (1971)
- June 30th, June 30th (1978)
- The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (1999)
- Revenge of the Lawn (1971)
- The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980)
- Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan (daughter)
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