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Late in the Empire of Men

Christopher Kempf

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Description:Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry (2015) Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf's powerful debut collection, reads the author's coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire--both political and anthropocentric--by looking back to Rome and Carthage and by glancing forward to a time when, as he writes in the poem -Dominion, - -the idea of people/is over.- Employing a baroque layering of image and allusion, patterned sonic texturing, and post-narrative self-consciousness, Kempf reveals how commonplace rhetorical practices--football's valorization of a -warrior ethos, - for example--work to conscript young American men, in particular, into patterns of thought and behavior constitutive of an imperialist state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Late in the Empire of Men. To get started finding Late in the Empire of Men, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry (2015) Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf's powerful debut collection, reads the author's coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire--both political and anthropocentric--by looking back to Rome and Carthage and by glancing forward to a time when, as he writes in the poem -Dominion, - -the idea of people/is over.- Employing a baroque layering of image and allusion, patterned sonic texturing, and post-narrative self-consciousness, Kempf reveals how commonplace rhetorical practices--football's valorization of a -warrior ethos, - for example--work to conscript young American men, in particular, into patterns of thought and behavior constitutive of an imperialist state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Late in the Empire of Men. To get started finding Late in the Empire of Men, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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