The Hounds of No [Paperback]

Lara Glenum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

In this entirely unheimlich debut, Lara Glenum enters the stage of American poetry like a Fritz Lang glamor-girl-cum-anatomical-model, swinging a string of what might be pearls.... The operating chamber is an operating theater, the stage set of the body indistinguishable from the other institutions that make our provincial village hum: mental hospitals, martyrs’ shrines, finishing schools. In an era where the term “surreal” has all the potency of a wink and a nod, Glenum recovers the political intensity and daring of the Surrealist project.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The grotesque is domestic, and the domestic, war-torn. The Hounds of No is morbidly brilliant." --Claudia Rankine

"As in Blake's apocalyptic images, the sky rolls itself up like a scroll - brilliant in its colors[...]. Glorious!" --D.A. Powell

About the Author

Lara Glenum was raised in the gothic south. She studied for her M.A. in English at the University of Chicago and received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Virginia, where she was a Hoyns Teaching Fellow. In 2000, she received a Fulbright to Prague to translate 20th C. Czech poetry. She continues to collaborate on translations of Czech avant-garde poets with her husband, Josef Horácek. At present, she teaches at The University of Georgia, where she is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Modernism and the Historical Avant-Garde, post-modern aesthetics, and theories of the sublime and the grotesque.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Action Books (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976569213
• ISBN-13: 978-0976569213
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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