Underdays

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-268-03739-0
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 122 g

Reihe: Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry

We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays.

Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems, a second voice, expressed in italic, hints at an opposing force “under” the surface, or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves—his Underdays—to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ott, Martin

Über Autor(innen)

A former U.S. Army interrogator, Martin Ott is the author of six books of poetry and fiction. He lives in Los Angeles. Ott is the author of several books of poetry and fiction and his work is well-represented in anthologies. He maintains Writeliving http://writeliving.wordpress.com), a blog for writers that features tips, writing spotlights, guest posts, and interviews. He writes screenplays, reviews, and writes for the advertising, marketing, and web writing commercial sectors.