ISBN: PB: 9780300267990
ISBN: HB: 9780300268003
May 2023
120 pp.
23,4x15,6 cm
6 black&white illus.
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14.99 GBP
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Mass for Shut-Ins
The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds.
In "Mass for Shut-Ins", African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals originate an ill-omened universe. Here, it is always night, grim night, under absurd moons. Venturing through dreamscapes, hellscapes, and lurid landscapes, poems map speculative fields of spiritual warfare. This collection is controlled chaos powered by nightmare fuel. It animates an utterly odd organism: a cosmology cobbled with scripture, superstition, mass media, mad science. Horrid, holy, unholy – these pages overrun with the unhinged, intrusive thoughts that obsess us all late into nighttime.
In "Mass for Shut-Ins", African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals originate an ill-omened universe. Here, it is always night, grim night, under absurd moons. Venturing through dreamscapes, hellscapes, and lurid landscapes, poems map speculative fields of spiritual warfare. This collection is controlled chaos powered by nightmare fuel. It animates an utterly odd organism: a cosmology cobbled with scripture, superstition, mass media, mad science. Horrid, holy, unholy – these pages overrun with the unhinged, intrusive thoughts that obsess us all late into nighttime.
About the author
Mary-Alice Daniel was born in northern Nigeria and raised in England and Tennessee. She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California. She is the author of "A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents".