Genre: Poetry
Paperback: 247 pages

Description: Dreadful Quietude, A confused saturation of Pre 9/11 America & Supermen by Geoffrey Gatza

Synopsis:

From Canto 70: "As it opens, the cityscape turns black." It: the poem itself; the American sky as varied lights of dawn encroach. Cityscape: the literal city of the poem; the "city on a hill," as it were, our nation microcosmically seen as a series of highs and lows, peaks and valleys, spires and skyscrapers. Turns black: the buildings shadowed by cirrus and cumulus; the decay of this, our 21st American Century, already a failure thanks to the most venal presidency we will ever know. Geoffrey Gatza's got a solution: the re-birth of the greatest "good guy" to save us all. Gatza just so happens to birth a new kind of poetic narrative, while he's at it. Meet the challenge to dare, dream a functional American future rooted in past ideals seemingly long dead, and read Dreadful Quietude.[Ethan Paquin, author of The Violence ]

Product Details:

· Paperback: 247 pages
· Binding: Perfect
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (March 2004)
· ISBN: 0975922718
· Product Number: 10298869