Author : Cameron Conaway
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950315
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Book Synopsis Malaria, Poems by : Cameron Conaway
Download or read book Malaria, Poems written by Cameron Conaway and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria kills nearly one million people each year. Hundreds of millions more are sickened by the disease, and many of them are permanently disabled. Billions are spent each year to understand it. Researchers know the molecular details of the interaction between the mosquito and our own red blood cells, and the myriad ways in which malaria impacts the global economy and the advancement of humanity. But what of the public? Though its story is told in thousands of articles and in hundreds of books, many in the developed world are unaware of how prevalent malaria still is. Malaria, Poems testifies to the importance of bridging the chasm between science and art. It adds thread to a tattered and tragic global narrative; it is poetry’s attempt to reawaken care in a cold case that keeps killing. According to Cicero the aim of the orator is threefold: to teach, to delight, and to move. Poets during the renaissance embraced this idea, and Malaria, Poems reinvigorates it. Allen Ginsberg called for a poetry of social consciousness, a “bare knuckle warrior poetics.” Cameron Conaway, a former MMA fighter, offers Malaria, Poems both as a response to Ginsberg’s call and as a new call to contemporary poetry.