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100	1		_aDombrowski, Chris, _d1976-
245	1	0	_aRagged anthem : _bpoems / _cby Chris Dombrowski.
260			_aDetroit : _bWayne State University Press, _c[2019]
300			_aviii, 67 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
490	0		_aMade in Michigan writers series.
505	0		_aAs in Dombrowski s previous books, in Ragged Anthem the natural world is as alive and as fully realized as language allows. His comfort with the naming of the world, combined with a life lived intimately with the other species that populate the landscape of home, suggest an authenticity that few can claim. Ragged Anthem is a demonstration in continued poetic growth and expanded terrain. Written from the speaker s midlife, the poems delve into the transformation of family, childhood tragedies, and politics. Dombrowski lifts the veil on the imbecilic bureaucracies those on Capitol Hill and in the faculty meetings occurring in our own conference rooms that often help to whittle our fates. The book contains well-placed and evocative allusions to such figures as American painter Mark Rothko and Saint Francis of Assisi, as well as the periodic highlighting of language from contemporary song lyrics. These "borrowings" set forth a conversation between the poet and other artists that evoke the original source while transforming it into something new, proving that words, although artifice, live within our bodies, changing our relationship to place. Ragged Anthem makes a powerful and important contribution to contemporary poetry. Fans of Dombrowski s past works and newcomers alike will bask in the poet s firm yet relaxed approach to the shaping of language.
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