alternating current press aug 2023 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - LETTERLOCKING is an ode to postcards, grocery lists, ideas on cocktail napkins, notes passed under doors, envelopes, and secrets. It is a record of the way the written word leaves its mark on us and the ways we hold on to one another during separations of all kinds. From gentle repetitions that read like pleadings-a do-over by the undone-to soft spaces of courting rituals that stay between lovers, inner turmoils easier to write than to say aloud, and imagined closure for friends and enemies on the receiving end, the epistolic poems in Stephanie Staab's LETTERLOCKING reveal our deepest intimacies and pay homage to the security of an unbroken seal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Dayton J. Shafer's Homeslice is a regaling, a rhapsodizing on a singular swath of Millennialhood-the '81-'85 babies, the elders. Part document, part performance, part poetry, these call-and-response nonfiction monologues address and deconstruct the turn of the millennium's most repressed issues-privilege and enabling, communal trauma, cognitive dissonance, evolving masculinity, artistic portraits, and fallen idols. Framed with the interactive rhetorical refrain: Is Your American Dream-, each monologue casts the reader as a chorus member in the meaning-making process-asking him to examine directly how the American individual can be a citizen of both society and self'.