{"product_id":"anthem-speed-9781609389215","title":"Anthem Speed","description":"\u003ci\u003eAnthem Speed\u003c\/i\u003e affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. By turns austere, gritty, futuristic, and visionary, Bolin's poems trace the romance between beauty and destruction like vapor trails, seeming to emerge from nowhere and yielding a lucid, unearthly glow, an evocation of absent presences and scattered signs: \"among \/ the disinformation of the distress feeds,\" Bolin writes, \"a pilot hears his coordinates \/ being called by other planes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection evokes the vividly mysterious remnants of a lost civilization. Its preoccupations are unnervingly familiar: war, injustice, brutalization of land, air, water, and species, technologies of terror and dehumanization. Simultaneously antique and space-age, inhabiting a world of elemental rites and of artificial imaginations, Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and envisions--with animal acuity--a world imperiled and empowered by its leaders and myths. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Bolin\u003c\/b\u003e's previous collections include \u003ci\u003eAscension Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Iowa, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eForm from Form\u003c\/i\u003e (Iowa, 2018). Bolin teaches at the College of St. Benedict \/ St. John's University, and lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50398424695058,"sku":"9781609389215","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f461ec5f-9117-48a9-8c66-1673acf56fca.jpg?v=1729068825","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anthem-speed-9781609389215","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}