Anthem Speed |
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Author:
| Bolin, Christopher |
Series title: | Kuhl House Poets Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-60938-921-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2023 |
Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Anthem Speed affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. This collection evokes the vividly mysterious remnants of a lost civilization. Its preoccupations are unnervingly familiar: war, injustice, brutalization of land, air, water, and species, technologies of terror and dehumanization. Simultaneously antique and space-age, Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and...
More Description Anthem Speed affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. This collection evokes the vividly mysterious remnants of a lost civilization. Its preoccupations are unnervingly familiar: war, injustice, brutalization of land, air, water, and species, technologies of terror and dehumanization. Simultaneously antique and space-age, Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and envisions--with animal acuity--a world imperiled and empowered by its leaders and myths.