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- Underdays
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays.
Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems, a second voice, expressed in italic, hints at an opposing force “under” the surface, or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves—his Underdays—to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Mystery Spot
- p. 5
- Cloud Writing
- p. 8
- Love Advice from a Twenty-Sided Die
- pp. 12-13
- View from Within
- pp. 14-15
- Craters of the Moon
- pp. 17-18
- Midlife Man
- pp. 19-20
- The Old Zoo
- p. 22
- Caves of Los Angeles
- pp. 23-24
- Soldiers in the Dark
- p. 26
- Ring Finder
- p. 27
- Why I Don't Carry an Umbrella
- pp. 29-30
- Houses of Straw
- pp. 31-32
- Mad Libs for Lovers
- p. 33
- The Lost Film of Kim Jong-Il
- pp. 35-36
- Angel Blue
- p. 40
- What is Left
- pp. 43-44
- Collecting People
- p. 45
- Blanket Party
- p. 46
- Lot's Lips
- pp. 47-48
- Ghosts of Hollywood
- p. 52
- War Wounds
- p. 53
- Fruits of Labors
- p. 62
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268158187
Related ISBN(s)
9780268037390
MARC Record
OCLC
918993013
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-22
Language
English
Open Access
No