Over by the cemetery next to the CP
you could see them in wild catmint going crazy:
I watched them roll and wriggle, paw it, lick it,
chew it, leap about, pink tongues stuck out, drooling.
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Tom Sleigh8217;s poetry swerves dramatically from the ordinary moment to the onrush of emergency or to the elusive past or to the unexpectedly comic. In Army Cats, Sleigh confronts the more feral aspects of war, journalism, art, and selfhood. Many of these poems are seen as if through the haze after the detonation of a roadside bomb, or while the smoke hasn8217;t yet cleared from history in the making. One poem describes the fallout after a wedding is interrupted by an explosive; still another attempts to re-create the execution of Saddam Hussein as distorted by a cell-phone video recording found on YouTube. This is brilliant new work by one of America8217;s finest and most relevant poets.
- Genre: Poetry
- Subgenre: American / General
- Publisher: Graywolf Pr
- Pages: 96
- Language:
English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date:
May 10, 2011
- Date Published:
May 10, 2011
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Author: Tom Sleigh
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- Store Item Number (DPCI): 248-65-5268
- ISBN: 9781555975838
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