Cold Pastoral: Poems

Cold Pastoral: Poems

A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled waysâ€•unmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster. The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hurricane Katrina. The Flint water crisis. Thousands dead, lives destroyed, and a natural world imperiled by human choices. This is the litany of our timeâ€•and these are the events that Rebecca Dunham traces, passionately and brilliantly, in Cold Pastoral. In poems that incorporate interviews and excerpts from government documents and other sourcesâ€•poems that adopt the pastoral and elegiac traditions in a landscape where â€œI canâ€™t see the bugs; I donâ€™t hear the birdsâ€â€•Dunham finds the intersection between moral witness and shattering art. Experimental and incisive, Cold Pastoral is a collection that reveals what poetry canâ€•and, perhaps, shouldâ€•be, reflecting ourselves and our world back with gorgeous clarity.
Country USA
Brand Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer Milkweed Editions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781571314789
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781571314789
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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