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Bangalore
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9781556594052
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 1 2013
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
Evans' jarring debut book of poems draws on his experience as a combat engineer for the Army National Guard...A strong contribution to wartime poetry composed by combatants...Given recent controversy over domestic surveillance and enlisted whistle-blowers, this is a necessary read, indeed.--Booklist
Drawing upon Kerry James Evans's experience in the military, Bangalore speaks from the position of a natural class warrior who came of age desperately poor in some of the most hardscrabble parts of our country. Whether highlighting a barracks argument about gays in the military or contemplating pent-up eros, the poems are experientially political in the best sense.
From Lilacs and Razor Wire
Bent over in a folding chair, my arm a rag of oil, I scrape the carbon from my M-16with a pipe cleaner here in the armorynamed after a young Colonelwho hanged himself.
No one sitting here really knowswhether or not the Colonelwas a homosexual. I bring up my mother-in-law, who is.
Outside the window the local convictshave decided to mow down the lilacsblossoming along the roadside.
We go back to talking about homosexualsand homosexuality, and I say: We are all a little gay, which lands meon the floor in a wrestling position . . .
Kerry James Evans served six years in the Army National Guard as a combat engineer. He received his MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and is enrolled in the PhD program in English-Creative Writing from Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
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