Matthew Gavin Frank

Broschiertes Buch

Sagittarius Agitprop

Beschreibung

Poetry. SAGITTARIUS AGITPROP makes of the heart and family history the stuff of mythology and "agitated propaganda," filtered through a voice that is at once angry and tender, hilarious and asshole-ish. Like the left-wing "agitprop theatre" of 1920's and 30's Europe, these poems often intend to provoke via unfairness, smoke and mirrors, a desire for stepped-on love, and veiled jokes The poems within involve eunuchs and Stravinsky, fishermen and Picasso, infant daughters who speak with whales, dying fathers who fetishize coffee mugs with moose on them. Also involved, as equalizers of sorts, are a vulgar Prometheus, Marilyn Monroe, an astronomer rabbi, a bag of almonds, a dead grandfather reincarnated as a sheep, an aardvark with issues of body image, and a mythical zebra. Each, as the title indicates, gets its trial by heart, by fire, by cosmos, and by picket line.

Autor

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of THE MORROW PLOTS (Black Lawrence Press), SAGITTARIUS AGITPROP (Black Lawrence Press), Pot Farm (The University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books), Barolo (The University of Nebraska Press), WARRANTY IN ZULU (Barrow Street Press), and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House Publications), and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Field, Epoch, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, The Best Food Writing, The Best Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika, Gastronomica, and others. He was born and raised in Illinois, and currently teaches Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction Editor of Passages North. This winter, he prepared his first batch of whitefish-thimbleberry ice cream.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Lawrence Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781934703557
• ISBN-10: 1934703559
• Artikelnr.: 27873879