In poems both personal and historical, The Dove of the Morning News explores conceptions of collectivity, inflected by each psyche, as a force of both connection and division. In its look at tribalism and systemic cruelty as rooted in shame, dread, and insecurity, the book seeks a better understanding of how power needs, spurred by communities of hatred, weaponize the brain’s tendencies to think in animated figures, caricatures, erasures, or, as in the book’s mediation on vellum, texts written across the bodies of others.
As a lens into contemporary life, the title sequence interrogates the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose sense of our increasingly interwoven cultural conversation figures now as a premonition of the internet. If his hope for the noosphere as a fulfillment of divine promise feels problematic, it nonetheless sees our globe as an organism whose long-term survival depends on the capacity of each to forge friendship across difference, to take the health and integration of the individual as emblematic of the whole.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 9781647791735
Number of pages: 80
Weight: 454 g
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
“The great virtue of these poems—and it is an aesthetic as well as an ethical virtue—is to dare to regard the parlous circumstance of our moment sub specie aeternitatis. The results are not only indisputable. They are, almost miraculously, reassuring.” —Donald Revell, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of The English Boat “The best book in the many written by one of the best living American poets, The Dove of the Morning News is news that will stay news.” —Claudia Keelan, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, editor of Interim, and author of eight collections of poetry, including We Step into the Sea
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