Inter arma

This debut collection takes its title from a maxim of Cicero's that, translated loosely as "In times of war the law falls silent," has been effective in recent discourse around the erosion of citizens' rights. Lauren Shufran employs a sprightly, activated boot-camp cadence in her metrically rigorous poems to look closely at the uncomfortable positions our military interventions put us in. Riffing on military chants, propulsive rhythms whereby submission and domination are inculcated, these chatty, allusive, classically informed poems explore analogies of terrorism and homosexuality in the context of our militarized media, our mediated military. Internalized rhymes, lyric baubles, and glittery, hyphenated memes insist on trainings and missions wherein heroes and villains are sodomized and lionized, penetrated and perpetuated.

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

Fence Books

מהדורות

1

עמודים

92

ISBN

9781934200681

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata