Weapons Grade is a collection of poems about the power of occupationapolitical and personal. They often play with sestina, sonnet, and couplets, as if only form can contain the fury of between the occupier and the occupied. There's a pervading sense of dread, of expiation, of portentsaeven in potato salad. There's also elegy and lullaby and seduction but, in the words of the sixties tune "Wooly Bully," the reader must "Watch it now, watch it." Highly poised, grand and intensely lyrical, the poems veer from the political to the personal, then finish on the elegiac, releasing complex and unexpected meaning with emotional precision. Looking directly into the contemporary apocalyptic, Weapons Grade, Svobodaas fifth collection of poetry, draws readers back to the radiant present.
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Weapons Grade is a collection of poems about the power of occupationapolitical and personal. They often play with sestina, sonnet, and couplets, as if only form can contain the fury of between the occupier and the occupied. There's a pervading sense of dread, of expiation, of portentsaeven in potato salad. There's also elegy and lullaby and seduction but, in the words of the sixties tune "Wooly Bully," the reader must "Watch it now, watch it." Highly poised, grand and intensely lyrical, the poems veer from the political to the personal, then finish on the elegiac, releasing complex and unexpected meaning with emotional precision. Looking directly into the contemporary apocalyptic, Weapons Grade, Svobodaas fifth collection of poetry, draws readers back to the radiant present.
Imprint | University of Arkansas Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series |
Release date | September 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | September 2009 |
Authors | Terese Svoboda |
Series editors | Enid Shomer |
Dimensions | 139 x 215 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 136 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55728-906-3 |
Barcode | 9781557289063 |
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LSN | 1-55728-906-9 |