| The Patriot: Poems Contributor(s): Davis, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820319910 ISBN-13: 9780820319919 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1998 Annotation: The Patriot is the chronicle of a deeply personal attempt to rebuild a sense of self and safety in an unstable environment. Christopher Davis' poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, and in which the insinuations of consumer culture into the psyche destroy security, but in which dark humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair. In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 97049513 |
| Series: Contemporary Poetry (Univ of Georgia Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.52" W x 8.5" (0.36 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Patriot is the chronicle of a deeply personal attempt to rebuild a sense of self and safety in an unstable environment. Christopher Davis's poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, and in which the insinuations of consumer culture into the psyche destroy security, but in which dark humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair. In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide." |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Christopher: - CHRISTOPHER DAVIS is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future, winner of the 1988 Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry. |