The Boss |
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| Author:
| Chang, Victoria |
| Series title: | McSweeney's Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-938073-58-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | McSweeney's Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Written in "a breathless kind of fury,” the poems in award-winning poet Victoria Chang’s virtuosic third collection The Boss dance across the page with the brutal power and incandescent beauty of spring lightning. Obsessive, brilliant, linguistically playful--the mesmerizing world of
The Boss is as personal as it is distinctly post-9/11. The result is a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind exploration of contemporary American culture, power structures, family life, and...
More DescriptionWritten in "a breathless kind of fury,” the poems in award-winning poet Victoria Chang’s virtuosic third collection The Boss dance across the page with the brutal power and incandescent beauty of spring lightning. Obsessive, brilliant, linguistically playful--the mesmerizing world of The Boss is as personal as it is distinctly post-9/11. The result is a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind exploration of contemporary American culture, power structures, family life, and ethnic and personal identity.
I watch a shrill pelican dive straight down into
the water a waiter brings us fish on a plate a pelican
swallows a fish whole a pelican is the boss
with its endless office of sky I could stand on the pier the whole day
and peer at the pelicans that fall
from the sky with their briefcases of fish in their
oily grey suits and shined black shoes
--from "[The boss is not poetic writing about the boss is not poetic]”