As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Nude Descending and Empire\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt; develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in\u0026#8212;with all its crises, madness, and modernity\u0026#8212;and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recognize many of the urgent political issues of our time, yet will find them re-inhabited and transformed here by the imaginative power of poetry. Our great ecological crisis is cast as the fulfillment of a long history of violence, domination, lies, and alienation\u0026#8212;in one word, empire\u0026#8212;and the book suggests that a livable future requires that we wholly inhabit our body-heart-mind and discover a new paradigm.
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