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Author De la Paz, Oliver, 1972- author.

Title Post subject : a fable / Oliver de la Paz
Edition First edition
Published Akron, Ohio : University Of Akron Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (107 pages)
Series Akron series in poetry
Akron series in poetry.
Contents Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Address; These are your ashes; Atlas; This is your atoll; These are your battlefields; These are your boardwalks; This is your breeze; These are your bridges; These are your canyons; These are your capitals; This is your city; These are your countries; These are your docks; These are your holy places; These are your horizons; These are your interstates; These are your islands; These are your maps; These are your meadows; These are your parks; These are your pastures; These are your plains; These are your salt flats
These are your skiesThese are your springs; This is your tremor; These are your vistas; These are your volcanoes; This is your wall; These are your wells; These are your wires; Ledger; This is your aftermath; This is your art; These are your asylums; These are your banners; These are your billboards; This is your church; These are your engines; These are your evenings; These are your foundries; These are your goods; These are your guns; These are your inquests; These are your laws; This is your light; These are your mercies; These are your murders; These are your nights; These are your orders
This is your purviewThese are your processions; This is your product; These are your questions; These are your radio towers; These are your ramparts; This is your reliquary; This is your sanitarium; These are your spires; These are your squares; These are your structures; These are your temples; This is your tomb; This is your window; These are your winters; Zoo; These are your aerialists; This is your assembly; These are your beasts; This is your bestiary; These are your birds; These are your bondsmen; These are your dead; These are your devotees; These are your dissidents
These are your followersThese are your hagiographers; These are your horses; These are your idolaters; These are your jellyfish; These are your nurseries; These are your orators; These are your percussionists; These are your phantoms; These are your rebels; These are your refugees; These are your revelers; This is your rival; These are your scholars; These are your scribes; These are your stables; This is your stevedore; This is your subject; These are your slaves; This is your ward; These are your witnesses; These are your worshippers; These are your zebras; Zygote; This is your photo
Summary "Ecstatic and obsessive, the prose poems that make up Oliver de la Paz's Post Subject: A Fable reveal the monuments of a lost country. Through a series of epistles addressed to "Empire" a catalog emerges, where what can be tallied is noted in a ledger, what can be claimed is demarcated, and what has been reaped is elided. The task of deposing the late century is taken up. What's salvaged from the remains is humanity"-- Provided by publisher
Notes English
Print version record
Subject American poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
American poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781629220086
1629220086
9781629220093
1629220094