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- Nude Descending an Empire
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in—with all its crises, madness, and modernity—and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recognize many of the urgent political issues of our time, yet will find them re-inhabited and transformed here by the imaginative power of poetry. Our great ecological crisis is cast as the fulfillment of a long history of violence, domination, lies, and alienation—in one word, empire—and the book suggests that a livable future requires that we wholly inhabit our body-heart-mind and discover a new paradigm.
Table of Contents
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- From My Last Life as Rain
- The Book of Endings
- pp. 3-4
- Grand Opening
- p. 5
- Jataka Tales
- p. 6
- Song: Infernal
- pp. 8-9
- City of Lies
- p. 10
- Optical Illusion
- pp. 11-12
- Past Tense
- pp. 13-14
- I Am Addicted to Being a Man
- The Book of Poetry
- pp. 23-25
- Suits of Men
- pp. 26-27
- Celebration in Autumn
- pp. 28-29
- The Book of Wishes
- p. 30
- Madagascar
- pp. 31-32
- Slugs Mating
- p. 33
- The Book of Autumn
- pp. 34-35
- Figure, with Multitude
- pp. 36-37
- In My Solitude
- pp. 38-40
- American Mystic
- pp. 41-42
- The Book of Things
- p. 43
- Welcome to My Native Land
- Douglas Fir
- pp. 48-53
- Salamandrine
- pp. 57-58
- The Book of Echoes
- p. 59
- The Last Sun Dance
- p. 60
- Bittersweet
- pp. 61-62
- Blue Heron
- pp. 63-68
- I, America
- #DeadFacebookFriends
- p. 71
- Dear Customer
- pp. 72-73
- Confession
- pp. 74-76
- The Book of Winter
- p. 78
- America: An Autobiography
- pp. 79-80
- While We Wait
- p. 82
- Goodnight Moon
- pp. 83-85
- The Book of Spring
- pp. 88-90
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 93-94
- Back Cover
- p. 95
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822980292
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963042
MARC Record
OCLC
885455905
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014