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Cargando... Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (Iowa Poetry Prize)por William Fargason
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"Love Song to the Demon Possessed Pigs of Gadarra explores what might be born from the intersections of masculinity, mental illness, and embodied suffering. In his debut collection, William Fargason inspects the pain of memory alongside the pain of the physical body. In a complicated milieu of power and love, a father figure carves the speaker's masculinity. This process is mirrored by a tenuous relationship with God formed in the Deep South where the father's word is ever the last. Fargason takes language to its limits to demonstrate how grief is given a voice. His speaker confronts illness, grapples with grief, and heals after loss in its most crushing forms. These poems attempt to make sense of trauma in a time of belligerent fathers and unacceptable answers. Fargason necessarily confronts toxic masculinity while navigating spiritual and emotional vulnerability"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The poetry follows the life of the poet. The opening poem sets the tone. His father is demanding in The Great Santini way. He pushes in that 1950s, be a man way. Boys are not supposed to say indoors and play on Gameboys or wear eye shadow and be Goths. The father's life is touched upon and perhaps the incident that shaped his view of his child. And the child's life is formed by the father's presence. The poetry is well written as always with the Iowa Poetry Prize, but this collection has me falling through the cracks as an older reader. It is a theme for younger readers or at least those that do not fall into the Baby Boomer catagory. There is a definite gulf between generations and it shows in this collection. ( )