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Pyrrhic Symphony
Paperback
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781496247919
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
In Pyrrhic Symphony, the speaker asks, Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy? And the book replies: Why not both? It ails and wails, blooms and wilts, but always breathes, just as anyone reading this does. Part siren songs, part torch songs, Pyrrhic Symphony sings wry lullabies for apocalypses public, personal, and politic, moving from cruise ships to Krakatoa, from a dentist's office to a marriage as it explores how love, family, community, and art can function in the face of an increasingly hostile climate. And in lamenting how all I ever wanted from love / was that it never change, the feverish speaker goes toe-to-toe with the nurse who watches over him as they encounter and recount a world of late capitalist excess. By turns ecstatic and demonic, tender and terrifying, Pyrrhic Symphony stands as an act of musical witness and cautious hope in this age of corrupted wonder.
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