{"product_id":"late-in-the-empire-of-christopher-kempf-9781935536871","title":"Late in the Empire of Men","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Kempf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935536877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935536871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Christopher Kempf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937578090751,"sku":"9781935536871","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_181b4950-8b1a-4be8-a1ef-a2870c2e20d6.jpg?v=1681430886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/late-in-the-empire-of-christopher-kempf-9781935536871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}