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Dirty Bomb (FIELD Poetry Series)
Mark Neely
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Description for Dirty Bomb (FIELD Poetry Series)
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
Robin Behn called Mark Neely's first collection "nothing less than a mandala of the human spirit." Now, in Dirty Bomb, his formidable talents take on a wider and more public dimension. This book of poems explores life in 21st-century America, particularly the juxtaposition of intimate human relationships with the politics and violence of U.S. militarism, terrorism, and the threat of environmental apocalypse. Oil tankers leak, atrocities play out across the internet,"the present / always drags the past into the future." Yet Neely's piercing intelligence and dry wit keep the poems light on their feet and unexpected in their ... Read more
Robin Behn called Mark Neely's first collection "nothing less than a mandala of the human spirit." Now, in Dirty Bomb, his formidable talents take on a wider and more public dimension. This book of poems explores life in 21st-century America, particularly the juxtaposition of intimate human relationships with the politics and violence of U.S. militarism, terrorism, and the threat of environmental apocalypse. Oil tankers leak, atrocities play out across the internet,"the present / always drags the past into the future." Yet Neely's piercing intelligence and dry wit keep the poems light on their feet and unexpected in their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oberlin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Oberlin, United States
ISBN
9780932440495
SKU
V9780932440495
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Ref
99-1
About Mark Neely
MARK NEELY won the 2011 FIELD Poetry Prize for his first book, Beasts of the Hill. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. He lives in Indiana and teaches at Ball State University.
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