| Author: | Carol Muske-Dukes | ISBN: | 9781480484825 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media | Publication: | June 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Media | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carol Muske-Dukes |
| ISBN: | 9781480484825 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media |
| Publication: | June 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Media |
| Language: | English |
National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause
*Applause *provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In “Dream,” she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. “The Eulogy” paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. “What a strange phenomenon,” she says, “to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one’s anonymity.”
National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause
*Applause *provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In “Dream,” she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. “The Eulogy” paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. “What a strange phenomenon,” she says, “to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one’s anonymity.”
