My Tranquil War and Other Poems
Composed over the last decade, MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tackles head-on the question: What is the poet's special responsibility when terror becomes a general condition of dread, internalized to the last degree, and even beauty and truth assume grotesque masks? Written in a remarkable variety of forms-from traditional sonnets to experiments in found poetry-these poems constantly rub up against self-limitation, and in the desire to discover a voice appropriate for the times, turn what could have been relentless elegy into an often transcendent sphere of holiness and refuge. The poet's fate, it turns out, is a central determinant, a surefire clue to the future, as empire falls apart, past illusions shatter, dreams fail to suffice, and a new humanity emerges, almost against its will. The fiery apocalypse of the soul, negated at its core, at a time when the public and the private merge like inseparable warring twins, is what MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tries to capture, in poetry carefully treading the fault lines of sacred and demonic.
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My Tranquil War and Other Poems
Composed over the last decade, MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tackles head-on the question: What is the poet's special responsibility when terror becomes a general condition of dread, internalized to the last degree, and even beauty and truth assume grotesque masks? Written in a remarkable variety of forms-from traditional sonnets to experiments in found poetry-these poems constantly rub up against self-limitation, and in the desire to discover a voice appropriate for the times, turn what could have been relentless elegy into an often transcendent sphere of holiness and refuge. The poet's fate, it turns out, is a central determinant, a surefire clue to the future, as empire falls apart, past illusions shatter, dreams fail to suffice, and a new humanity emerges, almost against its will. The fiery apocalypse of the soul, negated at its core, at a time when the public and the private merge like inseparable warring twins, is what MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tries to capture, in poetry carefully treading the fault lines of sacred and demonic.
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My Tranquil War and Other Poems

My Tranquil War and Other Poems

by Anis Shivani
My Tranquil War and Other Poems

My Tranquil War and Other Poems

by Anis Shivani

Overview

Composed over the last decade, MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tackles head-on the question: What is the poet's special responsibility when terror becomes a general condition of dread, internalized to the last degree, and even beauty and truth assume grotesque masks? Written in a remarkable variety of forms-from traditional sonnets to experiments in found poetry-these poems constantly rub up against self-limitation, and in the desire to discover a voice appropriate for the times, turn what could have been relentless elegy into an often transcendent sphere of holiness and refuge. The poet's fate, it turns out, is a central determinant, a surefire clue to the future, as empire falls apart, past illusions shatter, dreams fail to suffice, and a new humanity emerges, almost against its will. The fiery apocalypse of the soul, negated at its core, at a time when the public and the private merge like inseparable warring twins, is what MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tries to capture, in poetry carefully treading the fault lines of sacred and demonic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935520580
Publisher: NYQ Books
Publication date: 09/07/2012
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author


Anis Shivani is a poet, fiction writer, and critic in Houston, Texas. His books are Anatolia and Other Stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2009), Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies (Texas Review Press, 2011), MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS (NYQ Books, 2012), and THE FIFTH LASH AND OTHER STORIES (C&R Press, 2012). He has also finished a novel, Karachi Raj, and is at work on another, Abruzzi, 1936. His work appears in New York Quarterly, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Agni, DENVER QUARTERLY, and many other journals. A Pushcart Prize winner, he studied economics at Harvard College. A second poetry book is in progress.
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