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Title

The odicy / Cyrus Console.

Author

Console-Șoican, Cyrus.

Publication

Richmond, Calif. : Omnidawn Pub., 2011.

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Description

81 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Insightful, biting, and masterfully crafted, this collection of poems seeks to assess the pressing ecological, spiritual, and political crises of the modern era. Tracking the mysterious central and repeating character named Tony, elegant verse combines with the end-time rhetoric of contemporary fundamentalism. In a canonical meter, meditations are offered on the rise of fountain drinks and the use of artificial color as a means to investigate humanity's social fabric. Richly blending cutting social criticism with poetic lyricism, Cyrus Console comes to terms with the social continua on which sugar substitutes are manufactured by pharmaceutical giants and weaponized defoliants evolve into bestselling agrichemicals--all while breaking new ground on the role of poetry in an industrialized society.

Subject

• Nonnutritive sweeteners > Poetry
• Sugar substitutes > Poetry
• Sweeteners > Poetry
• Agricultural chemicals industry > Social aspects > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The opathy -- The omachy -- The ophany -- The oktony -- The olepsy.

ISBN

• 9781890650520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1890650528 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011026825

OCLC

707327924

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library