Ger Killeen

Blood Orbits (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

BLOOD ORBITS is a series of poems and prose poems exploring various conceptualizations of history both as a generative principle of meaning and as particular contexts and events through which we shape our subjectivities. In language that is richly musical and startlingly surreal, these poems interrogate and confront narratives that encode oppression, violence, and dishonesty, both the "grand narratives" which structure our place in history as well as the stories that we as individuals tell ourselves to make sense of our lives in their dailiness. In writing that is at once philosophically sophisticated and restlessly energetic, the poetry of BLOOD ORBITS brings to life what Wallace Stevens called "the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind," exploring ideas as ideas, but also evolving a poetic language that squarely confronts the consequences of those ideas in real human lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parlor Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781602357877
• Artikelnr.: 56820261

Autorenporträt

GER KILLEEN teaches in the Department of English and Writing at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon. His special interests are postmodern poetry, Celtic literature, the poetry of mysticism, and critical theory. He is the author of several books, including A STONE THAT WILL LEAP OVER THE WAVES (Trask House, 1999), A WREN (Bluestem Press, winner of the Bluestem Award for Poetry), and SIG01 General/trade FOLLOWING (Parlor Press, 2005). His work also appears in several anthologies, including From Here We Speak (Oregon State University Press), AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), and THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARDS 2006 (Green Integer).