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Author:
| Klug, Nate |
Series title: | Phoenix Poets Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-19695-4 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Using a variety of forms and achieving a range of musical effects, Nate Klug traces the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes--domestic, political, and religious--in America and abroad. Whether describing a harrowing case of kids holding their cell phone cameras up to a goshawk picking at something behind police tape, or the powerful wall of sound generated at a Sacred Harp sing-along, or updating the classic verses of Horace and Virgil for twenty-first-century ears, Klug...
More DescriptionUsing a variety of forms and achieving a range of musical effects, Nate Klug traces the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes--domestic, political, and religious--in America and abroad. Whether describing a harrowing case of kids holding their cell phone cameras up to a goshawk picking at something behind police tape, or the powerful wall of sound generated at a Sacred Harp sing-along, or updating the classic verses of Horace and Virgil for twenty-first-century ears, Klug delivers everyday experience with a freshness, compassion, and the occasional satiric edge seldom found in contemporary poetry. Rare in this age of skepticism, Klug demonstrates a fluency in the paradoxes of religious faith, even as the poems remain grounded in the phenomenal, secular, physical world.