Author : Chad Davidson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809325412
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)
Book Synopsis Consolation Miracle by : Chad Davidson
Download or read book Consolation Miracle written by Chad Davidson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperbolic fizzling out of entire centuries. Here, consolation miracles are rarely the ones sought after, yet they radiate in their neglect. Davidson’s poems help us understand the inner life of cows, imagine the plight of a banished Kama Sutra illustrator, speculate about Cleopatra’s lingerie. With a title borrowed from Gabriel García Márquez, Consolation Miracle contains a magical realism for the twenty-first century.