Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Richard, Brad, author. Title: Parasite kingdom : poems / Brad Richard. Publisher, Date: Washington, District of Columbia : The Word Works, [2019] ©2019 Description: 103 pages ; 23 cm Genre: Poetry. Notes: "Winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize."--Cover. LCCN: 2019930522 ISBN: 9781944585280 1944585281 Other Number: 1101121448 System Availability: 3 # System items in: 3 # Local items: 3 # Local items in: 3 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Summary Poetry. Winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize. In these poems Brad Richard has created a mythos that at first appears to be a warning about where our world is headed, yet reveals itself as a dirge for a way of being that we've not yet realized is gone. PARASITE KINGDOM uses the architectural tools of Moby-Dick and Borges' El Aleph in the construction of underground caverns where Richard's poetry moves deftly, dangerously. A collection such as this could only have been written after the accretion of decades of reading, thinking, and writing. The Tenth Gate imprint exists in acknowledgement of precisely this kind of poetry: that borne only out of long gestation. Says Dan Beachy-Quick, "Perhaps we need most what Brad Richard works toward in PARASITE KINGDOM: a radical and instantaneous mytho-poesis that might give us perspective by breaking the whole damn thing apart. Taking both inspiration and refuge in Herman Melville--that fundamental chronicler of American unconscious--Richard gives us new apocrypha to ward off current apocalypse, offers us new symbols by which we might come to understand ourselves." Table of Contents What Lay Under Joy: Explicating the "Tunnel-Bundle"p. 11I Describe; I Explainp. 15IThe Wasp Knowsp. 19Fearp. 20The Cryp. 22Firewood Gatheringp. 23The Little Girl Who Lives in the Palace Squarep. 24Finding the Fathersp. 25Four Photographs of a Man Carrying a Childp. 26How the Torturers Come to Truthp. 28In the Interrogation Roomp. 30Surveillance Notesp. 32Asylump. 34IIWaspocryphap. 47IIIMaking It Great Againp. 59A Cento of the Garbage Patchp. 60Love Songp. 63War Storyp. 66You Have No Idea How Bad It Wasp. 68Mirrorp. 70Toilet Paperp. 71Ecophobiap. 73The Bakerp. 74The Palace Astronomer Explicates the New Skyp. 75IVLarval Psalmp. 79Testament of the Blue Waspp. 80The King in His Chambers, Dying, Alonep. 82Winged Fictoryp. 83Palace Inventoryp. 84Burrow Inventoryp. 86How I Will Remember Paradisep. 87After the Last Warp. 89Economyp. 90Homecomingp. 91Notesp. 97Thanksp. 99About the Author / About the Artistp. 101About The Word Worksp. 102Other Word Works Booksp. 103 Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
