Jason Arias

nostraDAMus 2032 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If a writer appropriates the mantle of one of the most celebrated visionaries of all time, he had best deliver and in this debut poetry collection, Jason Arias does.

In the closing line of the title poem he is exhorted to "Now wake up, for real. And write this down..." Whether he is awake or not may be in question, for this phantasmagoric explosion of a book reads more like a dream than any waking world, but he certainly has written it all down, every fractured and fractalized aspect of contemporary life, in poetry that twists and trails all over the page, daring the reader to keep pace with his imagination.

In lieu of toads his poetic garden contains the "toothless / warnings and zombie / survival skills" of summer horror movies (many of which inspire his visions), depicting a world where the second coming was always on the way but "We just never suspected it would be so beauti-FULLY / DIGIT / ALIZED." Just when it all seems too much, the "tidal pull" of his closing poem returns us to the comfort of conventional stanzas, describing a tender moment where "your sideways smile / either meant you were mad teasing or mad serious /... / and the space between us lessened / and the dawn was closing in" treating us to the "clear viSions of the END" promised in his subtitle. It's a lovely awakening from his fever dream.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sideways Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223748984
• Artikelnr.: 72411721