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Into the Ancient

by Joseph M. Hess
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798888384947
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 76
  • Original Price: USD 22.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 123 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss

Into the Ancient, presents America in an array of 'endgame' narratives erupting out of conventional dying metaphors: collages of nostalgia entangled with post-modern decollage ("Borrowed Browns"), a natural world trapped inside a devil's unsexy bargain ("Curve Wind"), a pornography adjacent to love and loss ("Flesh Cartography," "Splendor"), super models enrapturing on billboards above Jehovah Witness foot traffic ("Low Ghosts in Brooklyn"). Often, the poems present the quotidian turning provocative: a soldier longingly wandering a convenient store before a mission flight ("Parallax"); individual agency wrestling with classical, gendered mythologies ("Pandora and Orpheus," "Spotting Odysseus"). The poems wade in a textured poetics of allusion, imagery and metaphor trying to decipher the ever-evolving field of contact between enduring consciousness and fleeting awareness, between normative cultural expectations and personal revelation; they twist away from traditional storylines to strategically work out-of-synch, contrapuntally, towards a lucid, emotiveness.

Hess, Joseph M.: - Joe Hess is from Columbus, Ohio and received his MA from Miami University and MFA from Ashland University. You can find his work in The Ekphrastic Review, Into the Void, Lime Hawk, Postcard Poems and Prose, Helen Literary Magazine, Fourth and Sycamore, and a 2017 anthology from Shabda Press entitled Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands. His chapbook, Trauma Décor, was released in January 2022.

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