A01=Dan Albergotti
abecedarian
apocalyptic imagery
Author_Dan Albergotti
Biblical retellings
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death
ekphrastic poetry
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family dynamics
human erasure
Keats
poems about songs
post-punk bands
redemption
rewriting history
rock music
silence
sound
southern poets
the void
Product details
- ISBN 9780807182543
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dan Albergotti's Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient soundtrack of history and the seemingly apocalyptic present. Silence in the sense both of the void's innate quietude and of the failure to speak of people either dumbstruck or in denial, not speaking because they cannot or will not. Throughout this collection, these sounds and intermittent silences provide the rhythm for poems that question the nature of truth and myth, and that restlessly search for meaning in a reticent universe, ultimately unwilling to take no for an answer as they strive to find an ever-elusive yes.
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads and Millennial Teeth. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and have been reprinted in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He lives in Tampa, Florida.
