Appetite

Neuausgabe 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6219-9
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 113 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry

Appetite is a book that explores our American Mythologies, particularly masculinity and film. Smith investigates our fascinations with the body, gender, and entertainment in poems that are critically observant, darkly funny, darkly angry, and, sometimes, heartbreaking. Whether he is cataloging shirtless men in films and bad television, lyricizing the anxieties of childhood, or redrawing the lines of cultural membership, Appetite attacks its subjects with wit, candor, and compassionate intensity. These poems announce their presence with a style that is as beautifully wrought as it is provocative. In the America of Appetite, the usual hierarchies are obliterated: the disposable is a valuable as the traditional, pop culture is on the same level as the sacred, and the pleasurable simultaneity of past and present are found in high art and the tabloid. Smith's work engages our contemporary moment and how we want to think of ourselves, while nodding to rich poetic, cultural, and personal histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Aaron

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Men in Groups. His work has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner. He is assistant professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College.