Road Film |
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Author:
| Loesser, Ernest |
ISBN: | 978-0-9894736-3-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Encantos Media
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Framed as a cinematic odyssey,
Road Film owes its debt to the famous road movies from the 1960s-80s. Every reader rides shotgun on a trajectory into an American imagination full of joy and angst. Loesser’s mix of prose and verse displays the best of the tradition of the New Sentence--and his work as a journalist in New York as a young man, post 9/11. The result reassembles all the broken episodes collected along the lost highways of America: discarded and violent news...
More DescriptionFramed as a cinematic odyssey, Road Film owes its debt to the famous road movies from the 1960s-80s. Every reader rides shotgun on a trajectory into an American imagination full of joy and angst. Loesser’s mix of prose and verse displays the best of the tradition of the New Sentence--and his work as a journalist in New York as a young man, post 9/11. The result reassembles all the broken episodes collected along the lost highways of America: discarded and violent news reports, local and violent rumors, and the unverifiable stories passed from one traveler to the next.
Much like his previous work, Touched by Lightning, Loesser uses a reportorial instinct to transfigure the recurrent patterns he finds as a poet in the isolated corners of our homeland. Throughout Road Film, the driver races between two coasts; he jumps from the city into the wilderness--always skirting the moribund American suburbs, and though there be familiar faces, the author’s route never leads toward that simple place called home.