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ISBN 921870-28-0
6 x 9
108 pp, $10.95
Poetry
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Dementia Americana
By Keith Maillard
In the most personal writing he has ever undertaken,
veteran novelist Keith Maillard turns to poetry — his first collection
— to evoke the
madness of America in the time of the Gulf War. Also included is a long poem in blank
verse about the Harry Thaw trial, featuring Evelyn Nesbit, "the girl in the red
velvet swing." A superb documentation of America's dark obsession with youth, purity,
style and violence. Winner of the 1995 Gerald Lampert prize for best first book of poetry."In Dementia Americana Maillard puts the emotional
extremes of America under the knife. The surprise is the song, an icy mountain stream of
language that spills through forms as old as Ovid and Petrarch: it is human, sorrowful,
cruelly acute."
— Marilyn Bowering |
