The captain asks for a show of hands : poems /
"What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2011]
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| Summary: | "What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gathering sonic force. It's as if all the noise that fills our days were a storm, yet at the center is a quiet place, but to get there you must first pass through the storm, with eyes wide open, singing. Each poem becomes a hallucinatory, shifting experience, through jump cut, lyric persuasion, and deadpan utterance."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author to Don Kelly. |
| Physical Description: | 94 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-91). |
| ISBN: | 9781555975746 1555975747 9781555976330 1555976336 |