Anthem Speed

Christopher Bolin

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• Print ISBN:
  9781609389215
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• eBook ISBN:
  9781609389222
• Index: Literature

Anthem Speed affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. By turns austere, gritty, futuristic, and visionary, Bolin's poems trace the romance between beauty and destruction like vapor trails, seeming to emerge from nowhere and yielding a lucid, unearthly glow, an evocation of absent presences and scattered signs: "among / the disinformation of the distress feeds," Bolin writes, "a pilot hears his coordinates / being called by other planes."

This collection evokes the vividly mysterious remnants of a lost civilization. Its preoccupations are unnervingly familiar: war, injustice, brutalization of land, air, water, and species, technologies of terror and dehumanization. Simultaneously antique and space-age, inhabiting a world of elemental rites and of artificial imaginations, Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and envisions—with animal acuity—a world imperiled and empowered by its leaders and myths.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Mendicant’s Song
• The Absence Activities
• Borderlands
• Encounters in Digital Light
• Assent Studies
• Anthem Speed
• Prediction Monuments
• Attention in Statecraft Appendices
• The Conference to Convene the Court
• Transcript
• Searching The American West
• Production Values
• Dissident
• Search Graft
• Writs of Divisibility
• The Worker’s Case
• The Achilles File
• Reconstruction of
• Protocols
• Hunger Scaffold
• The Evolution of Signs
• Conduction Rifts
• The Spillway Meditations
• Dominion Claim
• Borderlands II
• Dominion Song
• Concentricity
• State Rooms
• Crenulations of Future Fires
• Figure Studies
• Field Guide
• Algorithms of Obsolescence
• The Union of Cause
• Lunar Years
• Soundwave
• Coordinates
• Lot 29
• Omen Ecology
• Decertification
• Photo Enhancements
• History Vector
• Leaderless Songs
• Pier-Filtered Voices
• Agency Identifications
• Blood Values
• Fuel-Tested Future
• Metrics for Autonomy
• Transcription Services
• Choreography Notations
• Litigation
• Exhibition 2.0
• Protocol 2.1
• Acknowledgments
• Kuhl House Poets