Poetry. In Brad Flis's first collection, PEASANTS, the reader is shuttled through a timeless allegory of the Nation taking new form in a new era. Compiling language rich with rhetorical cadence and alliterative fluency, the book exalts in the organization of our collective experience while lamenting the human as sacred organism of violence, the pursuit of happiness as the pursuit of enemy combatants. Poetic form, dramatized throughout, becomes the pleasure-stimulus for language at once familiarly embracing and clinical. Peasants is both a recovering of meaning in the post-WTC ruins of ideals, and, as it's playable lotto-scratch-ticket bookcover suggests, a willful uncovering.
Author City: DETROIT, MI USA
Brad Flis is the author of the chapbooks Health Pack (Chuckwagon Press). He lives in Detroit.
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