Nude Descending An Empire (Pitt Poetry Series)

As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in—with all its crises, madness, and modernity—and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recognize many of the urgent political issues of our time, yet will find them re-inhabited and transformed here by the imaginative power of poetry. Our great ecological crisis is cast as the fulfillment of a long history of violence, domination, lies, and alienation—in one word, empire—and the book suggests that a livable future requires that we wholly inhabit our body-heart-mind and discover a new paradigm.

• | Author: Sam Taylor
• | Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 09, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 104 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822963043
• | ISBN-13: 9780822963042