Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a
work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and
epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American
life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of
authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number
of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the
formerly Confederate South. Free-roaming in its breadth of
reference and tonal range, the Rant is at once viscerally personal
and unsettlingly resonant, infused throughout with an almost
hypnotic sense of scale, largesse, and historical moment. Already
renowned as a poet of emotional delicacy and singular stylistic
vision, Agee's hallmark gifts of writerly intimacy and ethical
resolve are here expanded and reconfigured on a panoramic canvas -
moving from a pared-back opening section to the accelerating pace
and barrage-like linguistic assaults of the latter addenda. But for
all its freewheeling furies, shifting emotional registers and
Kubrick-like black humour, it remains a remarkably formal work,
moored to the relentlessly dangerous drumbeat of Donald J. Trump.
The result is a combination of long-form radicalism and eclectic
satire, startingly unique in its blend of aphorism, acuity and epic
cultural imagining. Composed chronologically for nearly four years
(from early 2017 until Election Day 2020), Trump Rant is a triumph
of artistic witness and denunciation; an urgent retort to a global
culture of imperilled legal standards and depleted literary
response; and an incisive model of enlightenment and outrage in a
"post-truth" world being visibly darkened by its criminal shadows.
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