The Art of Fiction / Kevin Prufer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prufer, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books, [2021]

Summary:

An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individuals In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer's career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar-and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness-recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection's meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding (whether it's cogent or delusional). Via both satire and direct address (to the point of reader-squeamishness), Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

One

The Art of Fiction

Fireworks

Archaeology

The Damned

Blueberry

Jesus Christ

Two

The Translator

In the Bad Days

And He Will Guide My Craft

Hog Kaput

The Vast Economies

The Newspapers

Rain

Three

Into the Weeds

In Small Spaces

Cruelties

Wet Leaves

Not Thinking

Dignity

Four

I Have Voted

Right in the Eye

Memory

Far-Away Wars

Election Night

The Committee on Village Security

An American Tale

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.