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Mass for Shut-Ins: Volume 117

Mass for Shut-Ins: Volume 117

Daniel, Mary-Alice
Armantrout, Rae

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Series: Yale Younger Poets

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0300267991
ISBN13: 9780300267990
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Mar 21 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
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

Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals and spells, electric as St. Elmo's fire. Buckle up.--Rae Armantrout, judge

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.

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