{"product_id":"dual-poems-paperback","title":"Dual: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Minicucci\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical concept of the dual, a number that is neither singular nor plural. Though now lost in English, the concept is present in other languages both extant and ancient. The poems' forms fittingly include the elegy, palinode, and contrapuntal, which is both a single poem and two poems intertwined. They align contemporary moments with key texts from Western literature, including ancient Greek epics, in a way that helps us reconsider the aggression of young men. \"The world kills kind boys,\" Minicucci writes, and \"we bury the bodies inside men.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Minicucci recategorizes our idea of \"West,\" the Western canon, and the Old West and its bullets, comparing them to modern-day landscapes in Utah, Oregon, Washington, California, and Hawai'i. Whether memorializing a woodworking grandfather or poets Brigit Pegeen Kelly and James Longenbach, \u003ci\u003eDual \u003c\/i\u003enotes that loss has a double vision. While weighty in their subjects, \u003ci\u003eDual\u003c\/i\u003e's poems make room for unexpected moments of lightness, such as when the speaker compares the complications of love to \"reading the \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003eand realizing, sure, there's anger, \/\/ but before that there's just a lot of camping.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book argues, in the end, that there is an unalienable dual between the observer and the observed, the self and the self as confessed to another.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Minicucci\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author of three previous collections of poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in journals including \u003ci\u003eAPR, The Believer, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is assistant professor in the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352512250105,"sku":"9781946724670","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/n8YNf9kvPT9781946724670.webp?v=1769811033","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dual-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}