"America's epic is the odyssey of appetite," Campbell McGrath
declares, and these poems track those defining hungers across a
social landscape by turns "grave, risible, amazing, banal,"
cataloging the "vortex of images in a ruined theater the culture
comes to resemble," from Rocky and Bullwinkle to "Blue Angels
rampant on a field of static, / anthem and flag descending to
darkness." In terza rima meditations, rock-and-roll elegies, and
abecedarian lyrics, "Pax Atomica" documents the tangled romance
between self and society ("in which / the melody's ampersand
ensnares us") in ways both new and familiar to readers of McGrath's
five previous volumes. A continuation as well as a departure for
one of America's most highly honored poets, this is poetry of
formal eloquence and rhetorical power, of vision and engagement.
"Pax Atomica"descends into the maelstrom of American culture and
emerges singing.
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