{"product_id":"sound-fury-poems-9781609388690","title":"Sound Fury: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, poems by metaphysician Robert Herrick are refashioned into phantasmagorical oddities of likeness and difference. Figures from the fringes of popular imagination—Zane Grey, Robinson Crusoe, Porfirio Díaz—surface as cobbled-together avatars on the theme of identity. Brilliantly asserting the necessity of humane and resistant modes of speech against the vapid sounds and enforced silences of orthodoxy, \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e finds the poet “Now, in our former state\/ In our current one\/ In stately procession,” venturing forth in a world “where things of questionable being go.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Since his debut collection, \u003ci\u003eDebt,\u003c\/i\u003e Mark Levine has managed to reinvent himself with each new book. In \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, he turns to canonical poetry, which he has absorbed with love, distaste, and ambivalence, to embark on a chaotic, dream-like romp that puzzles and dazzles with its images and invented forms. The immersive landscapes of these poems might remind one of other fantastic and haunting worlds: environments such as Ian Cheng’s endlessly proliferating self-playing video game \u003ci\u003eEmissaries\u003c\/i\u003e, or Victorian fairy paintings like Richard Dadd’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e amplifies our conception of how the art of the past can be radically transformed and brought renewed into the present—and ultimately of what poetry can be: a realm of expanded possibility and a heightened feeling of being alive. This is an extraordinary book.”—Geoffrey Nutter, author, \u003ci\u003eGiant Moth Perishes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mark Levine has an extraordinary nose, taste, and mouth for lives low and abject, filthy talkers and doers. \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e—its nouns pressed together loudly and furiously—is distinguished by its intense, continually revved-up virtuosity of voice, its absolutely right pitch, idiom, line cuts, and rhyme, and its large cast of ‘scavenging muckers.’ Levine’s language is unstoppably vigorous and his wit sly; his distinctiveness is his genius for a devastating inwardness. The postmodern disenchantment with the Anthropocene, that farce of human greed and conceit, finds its latest, most confident tracker here.”—Cal Bedient, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Breathing Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whether lark as in songbird, or lark as in stunt, these skeptical, fabulous poems pluck pieces from Herrick and Pope like particulate matter from which the wonder of a poem inexplicably grows. Here is the poet Mark Levine at a great height. \u003ci\u003eSound Fury\u003c\/i\u003e turns any easy notion of content and context inside out, executing the truth of our effortful helplessness. This book is a feat, a tonal fiesta, but not for this will it keep mattering to me, no—these songs come from somewhere deep underneath: if bawdy, then tender, full of woeful delight.”—Sally Keith, author, \u003ci\u003eRiver House\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188842029399,"sku":"9781609388690","price":16.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-fury-poems-9781609388690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}