Narcissus Americana Poems【電子書籍】[ Travis Mossotti ]＞○○2769 - カスタマイズ

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Narcissus Americana＜/em＞ sings and scraps and wrestles its way across various landscapesーabandoned quarries, art museums, lavish homes, and tar pitsーin a quest to attain a more complex vision of what it means to be upwardly mobile.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These poems question the usefulness of wealth and ownership as markers of success. Taking wine fridges and fake flowers as emblems of capitalism’s failure to assuage human loneliness, the speakers in these poems find joy in shared meals and glasses of wine, and use moments of mutual attention to challenge notions of class in America. Intimacy is on display in “Cruising Altitude,” where the speaker finds a sublime communion between two disparate worldviews during an in-flight conversation with his father:＜/p＞ ＜p＞I ask if his certainty about humanity’s course gives＜br /＞ his life some kind of purpose. He doesn’t sleep well.＜br /＞ I know this. I quote Yeats. He quotes scripture.＜br /＞ Light balances on the wing and casts its yellow spell. . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sharply written, and with an eye for form, these poems engage with heavy inquiry but also know better than to take themselves too seriously, making it possible for, say, dungeons to share space with donuts, as in the poem “Rancho La Brea.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mossotti’s timely book invites the reader to traverse America, and see the nation anew, on a journey marked simultaneously by critical scrutiny and deep affection.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。・・・楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア