Magnifier Brandon Krieg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krieg, Brandon, author.

Series:

Colorado Prize for Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections (2019)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

"A magnifier praises what's larger and a magnifier concentrates poisons. Brandon Krieg's Magnifier is a book of spirits invoked by destroyers. It trains its gaze on the deep dependencies we are urged daily to hide from ourselves and interrogates the ways we insulate ourselves from the environmental and social degradations we perpetrate, often at many removes. Magnifier is a book of systems of our collective making that have taken on a life of their own, which we pretend to control. It is a book mourning Romanticism's naiveteÌ, even as it cannot help but engage in a search for meanings not commercial or ideological in the more-than-human world. And yet, the poems in Magnifier refuse to let slip from their focus the human everywhere, or to retreat into a mystifying "wilderness." If a maple seed is to astonish, it must do so in the neighborhood of a reactor. Formally various, balanced on the edge of order and chaos, the poems in Magnifier cry out for "something more" from the "nothing but" even as they zero in on the damage we have done"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

One

Magnifier

Comedy of Mirrors

In Case of Loss

The Lover in Winter Plaineth

Reliance Inventory

Users with Access

Stranded at Alpha

Two

Arrival at the Complex

Winter Asylum

Constructing a Center

Tracing the Grooves

All Forks

February Twenty-Ninth

Riddled Territory

Coda: Spring

Three

Rude Mechanical

Wrecked Eclogue

Now Under Wind Take

Walks Scribbled over Scribbled over Walks

Two Notes

Sick Georgic

Four

In the Shadow of the Reactor

Litany

One Unlearning

Sieve

Havening

Unfastening

Interjection

Coat

Aftercast

Reed

In the Preserve

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

The Colorado Prize for Poetry

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635709

1885635702

OCLC:

1128828650