From a two-time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a
bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world--and
offering poetry that might save it "Civil twilight" occurs just
before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough
to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the
richness of their detail.Beginning with the idea that nothing can
be seen clearly in the light of the present, the poems in Civil
Twilight attempt to resuscitate lyric's revelatory impulse by
taking nothing for granted, forming their materials under the light
of a critical gaze. If there is any chance left for a humane world,
a world in which poetry might become as transparent and evocative
as it has always longed to be, these poems desire nothing but to
find hints of that chance, and to follow them as far as they might
lead. Jeffrey Schultz brings his distinct voice to bear on the
stuff of twenty-first-century America--languishing FOIA requests,
graffiti-covered city walls, the violent machinery of the
state--without abandoning hope that the language of poetry might
transport us to some better and as-yet-unimaginable world. Turning
a call to be "civil" on its head, this collection nudges the reader
toward revolution.
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