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<p><strong>Pulitzer Prize finalist</strong> </p><p>A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved popular and highly lauded poets--a stirring strikingly original intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.</p><p><em>XX</em> is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems--one per year--written in a vast range of forms and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation <em>XX</em> turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima Modernism and propaganda Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin--its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture invention and struggle.</p><p>Elegiac and celebratory deeply tragic and wickedly funny <em>XX</em> is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry and his most ambitious book yet.</p>