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.


Author: Christopher Bolin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 11/15/2023
Series: Kuhl House Poets
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781609389215

About the Author
Christopher Bolin's previous collections include Ascension Theory (Iowa, 2013) and Form from Form (Iowa, 2018). Bolin teaches at the College of St. Benedict / St. John's University, and lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota.