Joseph Hess

Trauma Decor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The title poem for the chapbook, Trauma Décor, which was finalist in the Midwestern Writing Center's Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest, carries the chapbook's often-present theme of a protagonist's apocalyptic foreboding set in motion, here, by an oversaturation of terror images delivered by a 24-hour American news cycle. An acutely drawn arena of adolescent growth in a world on the brink is frequently depicted from a midwestern perspective, especially evident in the poems "Gargantuan," "Life on Mars," and "Charlton Heston is Dead," recently anthologized in Teresa Chuc's Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in our Hands. While the body of poems often pose more questions than answers regarding the self-fracturing happenings of familial loss, societal violence, climate-change, and addiction, these questions effectively function as an ever-present texture that inhabits the chapbook.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9781646627462
• ISBN-10: 1646627466
• Artikelnr.: 63301961

Autorenporträt

Joe Hess is from Columbus, Ohio and received his MA from Miami University and his MFA from Ashland University. You can find his work in *82 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Into the Void, a 2017 anthology from Shabda Press entitled Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands, and in the Ohio Poetry Association's Ekphrastic Anthology A Rustling and Waking Within.