House of fact, house of ruin: poems
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"Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing SEND or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange."--
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Grouping Title | house of fact house of ruin |
Grouping Author | tom sleigh |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2022-05-17 02:08:33AM |
Last Indexed | 2022-05-17 02:50:41AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | 9781555977979 |
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display_description | "Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing SEND or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange."-- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Graywolf Press, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | American poetry -- 21st century Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | House of fact, house of ruin : poems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | House of fact, house of ruin : poems / Tom Sleigh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | House of fact, house of ruin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | poems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | American poetry |