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Civil Twilight: Poems by [Jeffrey Schultz]

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Civil Twilight: Poems Kindle Edition

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Civil Twilight, the stunning second collection by Jeffrey Schultz, explodes with a sequence of expansive historical reflections concerning the troubled state of the union during--and evolving from--the catastrophes of the Reagan and Bush years. Yet the poems in this collection--by turns polemical and tender, framed always with a wry brilliance and riddled with a noirish humor -- emerge with their disturbingly prescient conviction that the skies above this union are ever darkening. Both Whitmanic and Blakean in its visionary scope, Civil Twilight stands as an immensely powerful Book of Psalms for this country's new dark times. (David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour)

Already the winner of National Poetry Series honors for 2013's What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other, polished poet Schultz shows his craft in long, cleanly reticulated lines. ...  The title poem is masterly, moving from the "bland abstract expressionism" of America's landscapes to the "beauty of transgression," as demonstrated by 19th-century Parisian rioters and Sixties students, whom Ronald Reagan said he wanted to meet with a bloodbath, to the speaker's absorption in life's superficialities as a friend suffers. VERDICT Weighty but worth it for serious poetry readers. (Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal)

Civil Twilight is a surreal trip of a book. Schultz describes our world, but does so in a murky, tired tone--as if we have stumbled out of a daze to finally see the light...in these pages, my senses [were] both bombarded and soothed: "We walked, the sky above us fig-flesh / And flesh and baton-black at the edges, and on the bus benches and fences // Around us the Graffiti Eradication Task Force's patches of color, / Earth toned and muted, a sort of bland abstract expressionism." The State has exploded into some nearly apocalyptic organism, and Schultz is like some haggard oracle--spent and disgusted with violence and obfuscation, turning to language--there to document the fall. (Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions)

Civil Twilight wants to show you how severe, if truly considered, the strictures of militarism, capitalism and cultural homogenization are. An exacting thinker, Schultz' fever-pitch precision in elucidating those things (and their mechanisms) is at times reminiscent of the late David Foster Wallace. Schultz refuses to submit, ever, to vagueness. For vagueness is too often a veil for exploitation and oppression. Civil Twilight implores you to: Look. (Ben Evans, Huffington Post)

Civil Twilight is a poetry collection where the rays of sunshine come not from a poetic invocation of hope ("hope is a thing that falters") but from the prismatic splendor of Schultz's description of the horror and absurdity of American life. ... Lines are long in this collection--reaching toward epic and almost into prose but for the stanzaic structures, the abundant internal rhyme, and the fruitful schisms between ideas. Ideas mull and pace in these poems, undermining the forward momentum of narrative but not of thought. The poet is trying to follow a line of reasoning, to understand what it means to have a self in the situation of twenty-first-century capitalism, globalism, state surveillance, and endless war. (Nina Budabin McQuown, Kenyon Review) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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From a two–time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world—and offering poetry that might save it

Civil twilight occurs just before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the richness of their detail.

Beginning with the idea that nothing can be seen clearly in the light of the present, the poems in Civil Twilight attempt to resuscitate lyric’s revelatory impulse by taking nothing for granted, forming their materials under the light of a critical gaze. If there is any chance left for a humane world, a world in which poetry might become as transparent and evocative as it has always longed to be, these poems desire nothing but to find hints of that chance, and to follow them as far as they might lead.

Jeffrey Schultz brings his distinct voice to bear on the stuff of twenty-first-century America—languishing Freedom of Information Act requests, graffiti-covered city walls, the violent machinery of the state—without abandoning hope that the language of poetry might transport us to some better and as-yet-unimaginable world. Turning a call to be “civil” on its head, this collection nudges the reader toward revolution.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MT78Z62
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco (October 3, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1046 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
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