Appetite (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Smith, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822962195 ISBN 13: 9780822962199

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Appetite is a book that explores our American Mythologies, particularly masculinity and film. Smith investigates our fascinations with the body, gender, and entertainment in poems that are critically observant, darkly funny, darkly angry, and, sometimes, heartbreaking. Whether he is cataloging shirtless men in films and bad television, lyricizing the anxieties of childhood, or redrawing the lines of cultural membership, Appetite attacks its subjects with wit, candor, and compassionate intensity. These poems announce their presence with a style that is as beautifully wrought as it is provocative. In the America of Appetite, the usual hierarchies are obliterated: the disposable is as valuable as the traditional, pop culture is on the same level as the sacred, and the pleasurable simultaneity of past and present are found in high art and the tabloid. Smith’s work engages our contemporary moment and how we want to think of ourselves, while nodding to rich poetic, cultural, and personal histories.

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Aaron Smith is the author of Appetite, and Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the chapbooks Men in Groups and What's Required. His work has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner, and The Best American Poetry 2013. He is associate professor of creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822962195
• ISBN 13: 9780822962199
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72
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