Description
In Energy Corridor, Houston, Texas is the macabre avatar for a nation that has systematically stripped political and economic power from the middle and lower classes. In these poems the speaker wrestles with the guilt and complacency of living in the world's wealthiest nation. It is easy in America to do nothing and suckle the trickling down of the rich, but these poems urge that we have a community responsibility to alter the way we act. Through varied lenses, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, from Goethe to contemporary electronica, from the 1982 Tylenol Murders to the Stanley Cup, these poems assemble the rhetoric of our cultural landscape into a call to arms. We must change our ways.
About the Author
Glenn Shaheen was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a former nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast, and presently edits the journal NANO Fiction. His work has appeared in Subtropics, /nor, Barrelhouse, and Washington Square, among other publications. He curr
Book Information
ISBN 9780822963851
Author Glenn Shaheen
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Glenn Shaheen was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a former nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast, and presently edits the journal NANO Fiction. His work has appeared in Subtropics, /nor, Barrelhouse, and Washington Square, among other publications. He curr
Book Information
ISBN 9780822963851
Author Glenn Shaheen
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
