The Death Metal Pastorals

by Ryan Patrick Smith

The Death Metal Pastorals turns over the rolling green hills of the idyllic American landscape, excavates their violences, and attenuates the powers that live atop them. In Ryan Patrick Smith's pastoral, " nothing works here but blood & radio" and from page one, we know we're entering a landscape at once more ominous and more vigilant than anything conjured by Spencer, Drayton, or Marlowe.
Smith's poems upend the topography of the pastoral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625578075
• ISBN13: 9781625578075
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"