Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
ISBN-10
194643325X
ISBN-13
9781946433251
Series
Lost Horizon
Category
American poetry
Language
English
Published
2019
Author
Nathaniel Farrell

Description

Poetry. Taking as a point of departure the retail utopia of the American mallscape--a composite of town square, garden and space station--LOST HORIZON spirals out through interstate and rail to touch national parks, local attractions, truck stops, big box stores, strip malls, tattoo parlors, oil rigs, flower shops, and baggage claims. Throughout the incessant movement of the book-length poem, unbroken by stanzas or sections, Farrell privileges observation over judgment and seeks out the crossroads between cultural myth and brand image. The poem speaks from between the mall fountain and the wishing well, the Disney princess and Spenserian queen, the noble hero and the voyeur. LOST HORIZON is a poem that catalogs and indexes the collision between fantasies of high and low.

Other editions

Similar books

  • The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery
    By Lucy Maud Montgomery

    The poems in this collection by Lucy Maud Montgomery were written to reach the readers she thought of as "kindred spirits" - those thousands of people who then, as now, would be as deeply moved as she was by beauty in nature and in spirit.

  • Iron Rose: New York Poems
    By Douglas Nicholas

    ... lines that, like so many magicians, conjure a rabbit there for her pleasure Spark-charged Jim, he'd throw off nine new ideas a minute; most were wildly impractical or even silly but some, some were ingenious; he could shower sparks ...

  • The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    By Edgar Allan Poe

    An anthology of short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," and "The Raven."

  • Edgar Allan Poe: Short Stories, Poems, Novels
    By Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe: Short Stories, Poems, Novels

  • Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe
    By Edgar Allan Poe

    Presents a collection of tales from Edgar Allan Poe in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.

  • The Book of Assassinations: Prose Poems
    By Robert Gibbons

    So today I board the later , slower Matthew J. Hughes to do just that , fetch the burgeoning language . At the moment , the sun at stern , David's latest postcard , a Tapies collage sent from Barcelona marking the page I was reading ...

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder's Fairy Poems
    By Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Laura Ingalls Wilder shares her vision of the fanciful, ethereal, and mischievous world of the "Little People" in this first-ever collection of fairy poems she wrote in 1915.

  • Complicated Grief
    By Laura Mullen

    And not the least of this book's disconcerting, but strangely salutary, powers is that, under its stimulus, you can't help starting back.

  • Selected Poems: in Five Sets
    By Laura, Laura Riding

    Selected Poems: in Five Sets

  • The Complete Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1884-1935: Together with Commentary and Notes
    By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    This book also makes available a full index of poem titles to assist scholars, students, and critics in finding and contextualizing Gilman's poetry.