Late in the Empire of Men by Kempf, Christopher

Late in the Empire of Men (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935536871)

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Late in the Empire of Men by Kempf, Christopher

Late in the Empire of Men

$15.95
Late in the Empire of Men by Kempf, Christopher

Late in the Empire of Men

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Christopher Kempf
ISBN-10: 1935536877
ISBN-13: 9781935536871
Publisher: Four Way Books
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20d
By Christopher Kempf
By Christopher Kempf
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CHRISTOPHER KEMPF has published poetry in Best New Poets, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, and Ploughshares, among other places. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he is the 2016-2017 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Chicago. He received his MFA from Cornell University.

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