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<p><p>in His Fifth Book Of Poems, Timothy Liu Addresses A Tripartite &#8220;thee&#8221;&#58; The Divine, The Beloved, And The State. A Precarious Dance Between The Spiritual And The Material Ensues, The Lyric Poem Confronting A Consumer Culture Overrun By Rampant Lust And Greed Yet Finding Itself Unable To Wholly Stand Outside Of What It Critiques. Any Consolation Found Herein Is Short-lived. Even So, By Extending The Traditions Of Lyric Poetry Forward, These Utterances Seek To Enlarge The Conversation Between Art And Life, Anticipating Whatever Commerce The Future Might Yet Hold.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>liu's Attractive Fifth Book Departs From His Previous Work In Its Denser Style, But Not In Its Themes: Intense Devotion To Gay Male Desire Collides With Painful Self-scrutiny, Political Protest And Snapshots Of Far-flung America, From New Jersey (where The Poet Teaches And Lives) To The Red States And Their Evangelical Demands. Liu Tackles These Subjects In Tough, Sometimes Fragmentary, Free Verse, Starting With A Terse, Thoughtful Ars Poetica: All The World Day-trading Suicide Shares.... The Craft Could Be Taught But Not The Art. A Three-time Lambda Award Nominee, Liu (say

Author

Timothy Liu

Publisher

Athens: University of Georgia Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820326009

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities