Why We Live in the Dark Ages |
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| Author:
| Levad, Megan |
| ISBN: | 978-1-935635-42-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | Tavern Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Why We Live in the Dark Ages considers how information about science and history is transmitted through language, rather than empirical experience--and how successful that transmission often is, despite its flaws. The poems digress, at points interrupt themselves, then continue. Levad holds her poems up to us as a mirror, gently showing us absurdity, helplessness and humor in the human condition. These poems are not meta or worried where they might fit into the canon. Levad doesn't...
More DescriptionWhy We Live in the Dark Ages considers how information about science and history is transmitted through language, rather than empirical experience--and how successful that transmission often is, despite its flaws. The poems digress, at points interrupt themselves, then continue. Levad holds her poems up to us as a mirror, gently showing us absurdity, helplessness and humor in the human condition. These poems are not meta or worried where they might fit into the canon. Levad doesn't employ the usual poetic arsenal, although at its heart this book wonders and ruminates over the magic of language--not how we craft our stories for the page, but how we actually tell them.