Exit Theater
Mike Lala
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Exit Theater
Mike Lala
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Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Winner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Exit Theater casts classical elegy, with dazzling formal innovation, into a staggering work of contemporary, political polyphony. Through monologues, performance scripts, and poems of exquisite prosody, Mike Lala examines the human figureâas subject and object, enemy and allyâin the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus, Shakespeare, Cy Twombly, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals, accused terrorists, State Department employees, nuclear scientists, SaturdayNight Live actors, war criminals, malware, and a host of mythic, literary, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony, Lala implicates every actor, including himself, in a web of shared culpability vis-Ă -vis consumerism, representation, speaking, writing, and making art against the backdrop of the endless, open wars of a postâCold War, post-2001 era. Exit Theater is a debut of and against its timeâa book about war, art, and what it means to make art in a time of war.