{"product_id":"exit-theater-mike-lala-9781885635532","title":"Exit Theater","description":"Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, \u003ci\u003eExit Theater\u003c\/i\u003e casts classical elegy, with dazzling formal innovation, into a staggering work of contemporary, political polyphony. Through monologues, performance scripts, and poems of exquisite prosody, Mike Lala examines the human figure--as subject and object, enemy and ally--in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus, Shakespeare, Cy Twombly, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals, accused terrorists, State Department employees, nuclear scientists, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e actors, war criminals, malware, and a host of mythic, literary, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony, Lala implicates every actor, including himself, in a web of shared culpability vis-à-vis consumerism, representation, speaking, writing, and making art against the backdrop of the endless, open wars of a post-Cold War, post-2001 era. \u003ci\u003eExit Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut of and against its time--a book about war, art, and what it means to make art in a time of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Lala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1885635532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885635532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 7.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2016","brand":"Mike Lala","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800590070015,"sku":"9781885635532","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exit-theater-mike-lala-9781885635532","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}