Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series) - Softcover

Hall, James Allen

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ISBN 10: 155728864X ISBN 13: 9781557288646

Verlag: University of Arkansas Press, 2008

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"James Hall is possessed by the family romance, in particular the figure of a difficult mother who looms on his imaginative stage. 'I was,' he writes, 'mothered into art.' And then some: Hall's poems are psychically charged, nervy, both measured and fevered, compassionate and outrageous, and alive to the very core." - Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems "Now You're the Enemy is a brilliant exploration of the structure of feeling. This debut collection, in an astonishing sleight of hand, inflates representation in order to deflate the inner screen that provides both the darkness and the monsters." - Claudia Rankine, editor of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics"

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These poems have at their heart the charged, archetypal figure of the mother. Conflicted by the twin desires of self-destruction and self-preservation, the figure is both terrible and beautiful. This collection of poems shows a family in the aftermath of violence. James Allen Hall explores themes of loss, the intersection of grief and desire, and the ways in which history, art, and politics shape the self.
We meet the speakers mother in many guises - she is the rogue Republic of Texas, the titular character of Rosemary's Baby, a nineteenth-century artist's model, a fake entry in an encyclopedia, the lost queen of King Lear. With clarity, wit, and compassion, the speaker discovers the facets of his mother - her own abuse, her years of adultery, her struggle to remain independent - so that he may come to terms with his own sexuality.

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• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 155728864X
• ISBN 13: 9781557288646
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 70