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Anthem Speed affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. By turns austere, gritty, futuristic, and visionary, Bolin's poems trace the romance between beauty and destruction like vapor trails, seeming to emerge from nowhere and yielding a lucid, unearthly glow, an evocation of absent presences and scattered signs: "among / the disinformation of the distress feeds," Bolin writes, "a pilot hears his coordinates / being called by other planes." This collection evokes the vividly mysterious remnants of a lost civilization. Its preoccupations are unnervingly familiar: war, injustice, brutalization of land, air, water, and species, technologies of terror and dehumanization. Simultaneously antique and space-age, inhabiting a world of elemental rites and of artificial imaginations, Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and envisions--with animal acuity--a world imperiled and empowered by its leaders and myths.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781609389215
  • ISBN-10: 1609389212
  • Publisher: University of Iowa Press
  • Publish Date: November 2023
  • Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
  • Page Count: 68

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