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Antigone in modern poetry
Author_Brandon Dean Lamson
captivity and imagination themes
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Chesapeake Bay landscapes
communal and personal perspectives
contemporary American poetry
contemporary identity politics in verse
contemporary poetic experimentation
cultural critique through poetry
debut poetry collection
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experimental narrative poetry
fractured poetic narratives
gender and identity in verse
Grand Central Station imagery
Howlin' Wolf and blues in literature
imaginative reworking of classical texts
incarceration as metaphor
intersection of music and literature
layering of voice and imagery
liminal states and transformation
literary engagement with social issues
literary exploration of real and imagined spaces
Metallica references in poetry
metaphor and imagery in modern poetry
music and cultural references in poetry
myth and modernity in poetry
narratives of confinement
nonlinear storytelling in poetry
poetic explorations of mortality and fragility
poetic explorations of the human body
poetic reflection on incarceration
poetry of confinement and liberation
poetry of marginalization
poetry of violence and trauma
prison and incarceration in literature
prison literature and creative expression
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reverse creation myth
Rikers Island poetry
sacred and secular in poetry
spatial and temporal shifts in poetry
subversion of linear narrative
transformation and freedom in poetry
transgressive poetic forms
urban and natural landscapes in poetry
urban landscapes in poetry
voice and perspective in contemporary verse
Product details
- ISBN 9781625340092
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2013
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The poems in Brandon Dean Lamson's first volume, Starship Tahiti, explore imprisoned bodies and the tension between captivity and imagination. Beginning on Rikers Island, the book traces a creation myth in reverse, moving from prison to the spacious arches of Grand Central Station to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
Lamson examines themes of violence, gender, and identity in various real and imagined settings where inmates read Antigone, Howlin' Wolf sings in a black barbershop, and Metallica records burn on a Viking altar. Throughout these shifts, the poems construct fractured narratives that subvert linear storytelling. The layering of voice and imagery in this collection transgresses boundaries between the secular and the sacred, and between the communal and the personal. As the speaker of ""Portland Bardo"" says, ""The fragile, in between state of larvae hatching / is no less desirable than full bloom in a city of roses, if such a city can ever be found.
Lamson examines themes of violence, gender, and identity in various real and imagined settings where inmates read Antigone, Howlin' Wolf sings in a black barbershop, and Metallica records burn on a Viking altar. Throughout these shifts, the poems construct fractured narratives that subvert linear storytelling. The layering of voice and imagery in this collection transgresses boundaries between the secular and the sacred, and between the communal and the personal. As the speaker of ""Portland Bardo"" says, ""The fragile, in between state of larvae hatching / is no less desirable than full bloom in a city of roses, if such a city can ever be found.
Brandon Dean Lamson is assistant professor of English at Bethany College. Before earning a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston, USA he taught for three years at an alternative school on Rikers Island in New York. He is the author of a chapbook titled Houston Gothic, and his poems have appeared in many places, including Brilliant Corners, Nano Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, and Hunger.
