Author : L.S. Asekoff
Release : 2011-10-31
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Freedom Hill by : L.S. Asekoff
Download or read book Freedom Hill written by L.S. Asekoff. This book was released on 2011-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recepient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Winner, 2012 Witter Bynner Award and Fellowship L. S. Asekoff's Freedom Hill is a dramatic monologue divided into three sections. The first concerns the speaker's visit with his aging parents and the death of his father. The second, set at an art party, is a meditation on women, desire, and the nature of the self. In the third, we witness the effects on the speaker of a cerebral stroke, along with his gradual recovery. As readers of Asekoff's unique body of work have come to expect, this highly allusive poem encompasses a wide range of subject matter: Heidegger, C-SPAN, modern art, aging, capitalism, religion. Also familiar will be Asekoff's great variety of tone and verbal ingenuity. Although indebted to high modernism, Freedom Hill is an ambitious, thoroughly contemporary meditation on issues very much of the present.