Mass for Shut-Ins (Hardcover)

The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds   “Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals and spells, electric as St. Elmo’s fire. Buckle up.�—Rae Armantrout, judge   In Mass for Shut-Ins, African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals originate an ill-omened universe. Here, it is always night, grim night, under absurd moons. Venturing through dreamscapes, hellscapes, and lurid landscapes, poems map speculative fields of spiritual warfare. This collection is controlled chaos powered by nightmare fuel. It animates an utterly odd organism: a cosmology cobbled with scripture, superstition, mass media, mad science. Horrid, holy, unholy—these pages overrun with the unhinged, intrusive thoughts that obsess us all late into nighttime.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Yale Series of Younger Poets, 117
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Mary-Alice Daniel
Foreword by:	Rae Armantrout
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-26800-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-300-26800-9
Barcode:	9780300268003

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