Landscape with Mutant - Softcover

Pollack, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995767572 ISBN 13: 9780995767577

Verlag: Smokestack Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

"Poetry is about something," according to Fred Pollack. "A strong poem is about something that is important, but which is not perceived by the ideologies of its time or expressible in their language."

The poems in Landscape with Mutant are about US life before and during the Trump presidency, with its alienation, violence, and political despair. In this dystopian landscape, "the weak exist to be trodden and those who are trodden are weak." It is a book about casual racism, sharp-suited Fascism and the complicity of liberals – "wrinkled, blobby, obsolete, like me" – in the assault on equality and justice. Between the narrow horizons of the mainstream ("Have parents and write about them") and the games of the academic avant-garde, Fred Pollack makes strong poetry about something important. "You can be certain you’re an enemy," he writes; "it’s your choice whether also to be a threat."

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Frederick Pollack is the author of A Poverty of Words and two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness. For many years he taught creative writing at George Washington University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Smokestack Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0995767572
• ISBN 13: 9780995767577
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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