Second Acts in American Lives - Couverture souple

Ridge, Ryan; Bosworth, Mel; Current, Alternating

 
9781946580030: Second Acts in American Lives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1946580031 ISBN 13 : 9781946580030
Editeur : Alternating Current, 2018

Synopsis

Equal parts prose-poems, flash stories, riddles, and mythological prologues to the lives of spent Americans—struggling, murderous, born again, drug-addled, sexual, hopeful, despairing, soaring—this collection stands on the edge of genre definition and questions what it means to be at the cusp of living. Punchlines, plays on words, dad puns, and yo’ mama jokes straddle the saddle with deep metaphorical lessons on society today, making companions of dark humor and serious wit. A seance of poetics and politics, this collection of glimpses into the disheveled and desperate, the cerebral and celebrated, the gangly and glorious, conjures what it is to be American in a society as stupid as it is terrifying. Illustrated by Jacob Heustis.

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À propos de l'auteur

RYAN RIDGE is the author of three previous books, including the hybrid novel, American Homes (University of Michigan Press, 2015), which was the Michigan Library Publishing Club’s inaugural book club pick. His work has appeared in Tin House Flash Fridays, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, Lumina, NERVE, DIAGRAM, Passages North, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. He’s the winner of the 2016 Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction (judged by Jonathan Lethem) and his chapbook, Weird Weeks, cowritten with Mel Bosworth, won the Editors’ Prize from The Cupboard Pamphlet and will be published in the fall of 2018. He’s an assistant professor at Weber State University and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He edits the literary magazine, Juked. MEL BOSWORTH is the author of the novel, Freight, and the poetry chapbook, Every Laundromat in the World. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Alternating Current
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1946580031
ISBN 13 
9781946580030
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Heustis Jacob
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
178
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