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What is The Banjo Clock: Poems about?

For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. <i>The Banjo Clock,</i> her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, "the motion of new utility." She then turns to America’s psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV’s blue depressive light.

Who reads The Banjo Clock: Poems?

Author

Karen Garthe

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520951693

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14