| Author/Contributor(s): | Jackson, Elijah |
| Publisher: | Enigma |
| Date: | 4/20/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
There is a lion in a cage
I tell you to poke the lion through the cage
Dream house (Dream city) is the tour-de-force book-length poem and debut from rising star Elijah Jackson. A mosaic of original and appropriated texts, Dream house (Dream city) is urgent, riotous, and provoking, bringing a new and vital register to the poetic discourse. In relentless couplets, along with an afterword and index that deepen and complicate the text, Jackson careens in scope and tone: "The entire restaurant is surveilled/equally This mold will eat you." Taking its title from Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, and rooted in a close reading of it, the book’s roving eye pinballs from the quotidian to the philosophical, generating endless images and juxtapositions—a new way to look at the world.