"Warhol/Electric Chair/'63": The red spreads like Christmas
wrapping - the green, a field in a Caucasian rug. It's almost
beautiful without the metal plates for the head (though the plug on
the floor is visible). Before decorator colors & Hockney,
Calvin Klein in the summery Hamptons, before there were - switches
to break the flow my mother used to say never touch a radio when
you're in the bathtub, never fly a kite near transmission lines.
But still, it's furniture still, it's a typical American way to go
- it's Sing Sing, the silhouette of Ethel Rosenberg. In the
rheostatic air, the absent man heard "She Loves You", the British
invasion and the flat line arrived at once. Outside Negroes were
eaten by dogs. Johnson was sworn in. Cuba turned red in the green
sea. In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed
"June-tree", Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of
the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history,
self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with
catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian's new poems wrestle with
the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11. Whether reliving the
building of the World Trade Towers in the inventive
forty-three-section poem that anchors the book, walking the ruins
of the Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, meditating on Andy
Warhol's silk screens, or considering the confluence of music,
language, and memory, Balakian continues his meditations on
history, as well as on the harshness and beauty of contemporary
life, that his readers have enjoyed over the years. In sensual,
layered, and sometimes elliptical language, Balakian in "Ziggurat"
explores absence, war, love, and art in a new age of American
uncertainty.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Phoenix Poets |
Release date: |
December 2011 |
First published: |
December 2011 |
Authors: |
Peter Balakian
|
Dimensions: |
152 x 228 x 1mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
88 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-03566-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-226-03566-2 |
Barcode: |
9780226035666 |
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