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Daniel Borzutzky

Autor de The Performance of Becoming Human

13+ Obras 167 Miembros 5 Reseñas

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Daniel Borzutzky is the author of a collection of fiction entitled Arbitrary Tales and a poetry chapbook entitled Failure in the Imagination. He also published full-length volumes of poetry including The Ecstasy of Capitulation, The Book of Interfering Bodies, and The Performance of Becoming Human, mostrar más which won the National Book Award for poetry in 2016. He has translated a number of works by Chilean writers including the poet Jaime Luis Huenún and the author Juan Emas. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Koç University in Istanbul, and Wilbur Wright College of the City Colleges of Chicago. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Conocimiento común

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3.5 for originality and intelligence. If Walt Whitman lived in a global, urban, industrial time, this is what he would write. There is all the interconnectedness of humanity and nature, (though less pristine and optimistic here than Leaves of Grass) of common good, of the impact we have on each other and the earth. Borzutzky definitely has the pulse of our modern era and pop culture and the amazing capacity to zoom out and in to universal trends and truths to the tiny details that impact the individual. He doesn't shy away from what humans have wrought upon the earth and each other and it's very visceral at times, which kept me from loving it. I respect it, though. Mostly in prose poem form, the pieces provoke thought and reflection. Sample from Dream Song #423: "In the last verse we all sang a song about the Statue of Liberty, the fastest woman in all of Mexico/I love her, sing the generals and CEOs/I love her, sing the Bolivians and Peruvians/ I love her sing the beggars and bankers/I love her rusted body sing the pornographers and the doctors/I love her reverie, her darkness, her malleability, sing the professors/I love her, sings the poet because she reminds me of my mother and my mother reminds me of myself and I remind myself of my father and all the mouths he needs to feed." National Book Award winner 2016 and Chicago guy.… (más)
 
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CarrieWuj | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 24, 2020 |
 
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ThomasPluck | 2 reseñas más. | Apr 27, 2020 |
But we could really use some organizing principles, say the economists, because the lower classes, stuck eternally in their ugly lives, cannot make ethical decisions when they are starving.

I used this quote because this should have been the focus, instead of 150 pages of degradation and decomposition . Organic life is being reabsorbed human life is being reduced plastic reality and predatory practices.

The book opens with a measured look at Juan Rulfo and Marguerite Duras, each lending images to lingering, ghostly presence. The narrative then links images of internment camps and shopping malls; foreclosure looks pogrom in the eye. The themes bristle but the language used failed miserably, sitting in the shade along the highway, days from the destination.… (más)
 
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jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
A wonderful collection of poems that rage against the world as it is today. Every person that reads this might come to a totally different interpretation but that is the joy of it. To me the book is an indictment of conformity in which people are like slabs of meat. The government also is given the full force of Borzutsky's guns which burn brightly. Another theme is displaced people who are forced. to struggle with situations outside their control. A well deserved award winning collection.
 
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muddyboy | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 24, 2016 |

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13
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Miembros
167
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#127,264
Valoración
4.1
Reseñas
5
ISBNs
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