Author : Karen Garthe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273168
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Book Synopsis The Banjo Clock by : Karen Garthe
Download or read book The Banjo Clock written by Karen Garthe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, “the motion of new utility.” She then turns to America’s psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV’s blue depressive light.