Nude Descending an Empire

By Sam Taylor

Book Overview

As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in--with all its crises, madness, and modernity--and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recognize many of the urgent political issues of our time, yet will find them re-inhabited and transformed here by the imaginative power of poetry. Our great ecological crisis is cast as the fulfillment of a long history of violence, domination, lies, and alienation--in one word, empire--and the book suggests that a livable future requires that we wholly inhabit our body-heart-mind and discover a new paradigm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963043
• ISBN13: 9780822963042
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"