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Promise/Threat

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Promise/Threat

著者： Jonah Mixon-Webster
ナレーター： Jonah Mixon-Webster
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概要

 After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award–winning poet makes his highly anticipated return—with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry.

“I’m coming to you live,” Jonah Mixon-Webster announces early on in Promise/Threat, “from the corner of Shit Blvd. and Out o’ Luck St. / with my monkey paws.” So begins a three-part journey of a troubled rebirth, one that ushers the reader through all the torment of a Dantean comedy as it climbs unsteadily from darkness to light, navigating an internalized landscape that evokes the Flint, Michigan, of the poet’s youth.

In the long central sequence, “Territory,” Mixon-Webster sets the reader in a mirror hall of dreams, where one’s nemesis (or one’s self) is always lurking around the corner. Violences of the waking life trickle into the narrator’s sleep as he flees from vision to vision, “picking fruit in one dream and eating it in the next.” In the book’s third and final section, as the poet begins to wake, he finds that the “real poem is the life I’m writing.” Mixon-Webster’s musings turn to love and the often-destructive desires it provokes in us as he grapples with how to carry the burden of a past that threatens to sabotage the future.

These are seeking, supple poems whose forms adapt to contain their transfigured images. What emerges in this daring second collection is a surreal and haunting portrait of life in modern America, where pitfalls hide in every promise. アフリカ系アメリカ人 テーマ・スタイル 文学・フィクション 死・悲嘆・喪失 詩

批評家のレビュー

“An excellent, thought-provoking collection by a talented poet. . . . A captivating experimental collection. . . . Death, love, self-destruction, identity, and introspection are explored in these startling, vivid pieces. The images throughout are surprising and striking.” —Booklist
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