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Anthem Speed

Anthem Speed

Bolin, Christopher

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Series: Kuhl House Poets

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1609389212
ISBN13: 9781609389215
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: Nov 15 2023
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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