{"product_id":"exit-theater-9781885635532","title":"Exit Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mike Lala\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\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.","brand":"University Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969447084183,"sku":"9781885635532","price":1368.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781885635532.webp?v=1782921896","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exit-theater-9781885635532","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}