Written after a massacre in the year 2018 / Daniel Borzutzky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borzutzky, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy, against hate spreading like a virus. He grieves for children in cages and those slain in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. But pulsing amid Borzutzky's outrage over our era's tragedies is a longing for something better: for generosity to triumph over stinginess and for peace to transform injustice. Borzutzky's strident language juxtaposes the horror of consumer-culture violence with its absurdity, and he masterfully shifts between shock and heartbreak over the course of the collection. Bleak but not hopeless, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 is an unflinching poetic reckoning with the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Blankest of Times

Managed Diversity

Systemic Risk

Poem #1022

Day #423

Wall

Risk Management

Reality TV

Lake Michigan, Scene #719

Murmur

Take a Body and Replace It with Another Body

I Explain a Few Things

Dream Song #322

Shithole Song #1106

Identity Theft

How I Got Here

The Block of Ice Is Ours

The Crisis

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

The Murmuring Grief of the Americas.

Other Format:

Online version: Borzutzky, Daniel. Written after a massacre in the year 2018

ISBN:

9781566895996

1566895995

OCLC:

1192304372