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Chris Martin . . . takes the OHara city poet eye in his own direction, showing a sweet vision for the distance between public and private spaces. Jacket American Music , selected by C. D. Wright from over one thousand manuscripts as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets, is uniquely attuned to the feedback symphony of a modern city, the lyrical product of an earnest rage born of the absurd. Chris Martins poems reflect all things found in the urban asphalt, subways, technology, strangers, the drudgery of work, the garbage trucks and open parks, fist fights and snapshots, fears and paranoia, loves and joys. Here is the constant sense of life hurtling forward without the time to reflect, within a city rife with I can practically / Hear all those words out / There amassing to make the journey / Inward. American Music is a jostling of the senses; a decadent descent into the throbbing of a metropolitan world filled with familiar but yet unresolved . . . it strikes me That every person in every passenger Seat in every car in Every town in every country Is having some goddamn Thoughtthis is mine. Chris Martin is a rapper, teacher, and editor of Puppy Flowers , an on

Who reads American Music?

Author

Chris Martin

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556592669

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Music

Rating

4.23 / 5 (71 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14