Michael Bazzett

The Echo Chamber (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining. "Narcissus was never one to see himself // in moving water. // He liked his image / still." In The Echo Chamber, myth is refracted into our current moment. A time traveler teaches a needleworker the pleasures of social media gratification. A man goes looking for his face and is first offered a latex mask. A book reveals eerie transmutations of a simple story. And the myth itself is retold, probing its most provocative qualities-how reflective waters enable self-absorption, the tragic rightness of Echo and Narcissus as a couple. The Echo Chamber examines our endlessly self-referential age of selfies and televised wars and manufactured celebrity, gazing lingeringly into the many kinds of damage it produces, and the truths obscured beneath its polished surface. In the process, Bazzett cements his status as one of our great poetic fools-the comedian who delivers uncomfortable silence, who sheds layers of disguises to reveal light underneath, who smuggles wisdom within "rage-mothered laughter." Late-stage capitalism, history, death itself: all are subject to his wry, tender gaze. By turns searing, compassionate, and darkly humorous, The Echo Chamber creates an echo through time, holding up the broken mirror of myth to our present-day selves.

"A biting interrogation into the current selfie-age of narcissism. Funny as a knife, sharp as a punchline, Bazzett takes quotidian chores and blows images up into mythic proportions." -RHINO Poetry

"Bazzett artfully leads readers to contemplate the mythology of the self through a deftly woven collection." -Litbreak Magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571317469
• Artikelnr.: 62576823

Autorenporträt

Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber, as well as five other collections of poems, including The Interrogation and You Must Remember This, winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh. Bazzett is a poet, teacher, and 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, and Best New Poets. He lives in Minneapolis.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
History
I Travel Back in Time
The Problem
Movie Night
The Campaign
Hunger
The Monster in Late Middle Age
Costume Shop
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Inside the Trojan Horse
Menu
The Wall
What I Did
The Man on the Screen
Career Day
Florida
Part of the Animal
I Decided to Invent a Poet
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Echo & Narcissus, Revisited
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Persona l
The Summer Pool
The Play
Narcissus
Things to Think About While Shaving
Echo Tried To Save Narcissus
The Trail
The Anger Artist
Six Mirrors
At Fifty
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The Singular Library of Mr. N
Secrets
Echo
La Avenida de Santo Narciso
This Line Means Nothing
The Epidemic
A Stone
After Mr. and Mrs. God Died,
The Comedian
Acknowledgments