Poetryby Daniel Borzutzky

Hardcover edition: March 2, 20216 x9 120 pages 978-1-56689-599-6
Paperback edition: March 8, 2022 6 x 9 120 pages 978-1-56689-624-5

National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalisms moral decay.

In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy, against hate spreading like a virus. He grieves for children in cages and those slain in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. But pulsing amid Borzutzkys outrage over our eras tragedies is a longing for something better: for generosity to triumph over stinginess and for peace to transform injustice. Borzutzkys strident language juxtaposes the horror of consumer-culture violence with its absurdity, and he masterfully shifts between shock and heartbreak over the course of the collection. Bleak but not hopeless, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 is an unflinching poetic reckoning with the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of several poetry collections, including The Book of Interfering Bodies; In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy; The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the 2016 National Book Award; and Lake Michigan, a finalist for the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize. His translation of Galo Ghigliottos Valdivia received the National Translation Award. He has also translated books by Chilean poets Ral Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenn. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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