So Bright to Blind - Couverture souple

Laws, Kyle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0990784231 ISBN 13 : 9780990784234

Editeur : Five Oaks Press, 2015

Synopsis

In these poems, Kyle Laws excavates the Western landscape to reveal the effects of the atomic bomb. Here is the Trinity site. Here are poems about the pictures taken of the blast, testing the bomb that would go on to be dropped on Nagasaki. Here are those vast deserts of the early- and mid-twentieth century with the personalities who populated them: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Georgia O’Keefe, Zane Grey, and John Wayne. Laws’ poems explode on the page; one even plays with form to mimic the atomic reaction of nuclear energy, words whipping up energy as they are scattered across pages.Kyle Laws’ So Bright to Blind also chronicles what we lose as a society when our frames of reference are too narrow, and, when this is the case, the preserving role of art as witness and as a reason to keep living despite the ravages of our “science” to the earth and human bodies. She juxtaposes American efforts to achieve civilization through technology, food, and art with our atomic bomb design, whose “firing mechanism was only / an elaborate gun.” In doing so, Laws catalogues a raw episode in American history when, in the name of progress, our Western “shoot-em-up” attitude finally went too far.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kyle Laws' poems and essays have appeared in magazines for thirty years, with four nominations for a Pushcart Prize. Previous collections include Wildwood (Lummox Press); George Sand’s Haiti (co-winner of Poetry West’s 2013 award); My Visions Are As Real As Your Movies, Joan of Arc Says to Rudolph Valentino (dancing girl press); Storm Inside the Walls (little books press); Going into Exile (Abbey Chapbooks); and Tango (Kings Estate Press). She is the editor of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press and publications director for the Pueblo Poetry Project. She lives in Pueblo, Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Five Oaks Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0990784231
• ISBN 13: 9780990784234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
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