Based on Actual Events【電子書籍】[ Robert Moore ]

＜p＞Taking its inspiration from the Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask!”, ＜em＞Based on Actual Events＜/em＞ punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a “a realist in fabulist clothing,” Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a desire for sublimity. His project is to find new frames of reference for our estrangement from the world. With each burst of invention and stylistic high-spiritedness (“So we reverse engineered the awesome and all we got / was this lousy poesy”), ＜em＞Based on Actual Events＜/em＞ adds up to be Moore’s best book yet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A poet of vast reference, combining interests in Greek myth, popular culture, natural observation, autobiography and, of course, literature.” ーGeorge Elliot Clarke, author, ＜em＞Execution Poems＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A knockout, full of insights, clever language, and humourーof b．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る