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Industry of Brief Distraction
Industry of Brief Distraction | Laurie Saurborn Young
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In a voice at once direct, musical, and surreal, these poems document the journey of a woman as she examines her role in both the political landscape of modern American culture and within the scope of her familial history. Addressing modern environmental concerns and global destruction, the poems maintain a connection with a larger literary history as well as the author's personal history. Sometimes grounded in the concrete, physical world, sometimes floating in imaginative abstraction, this book unveils a version of the America we live in, this industry of brief distraction.
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I loved these abstract poems, encompassing so many subjects, but doing it in a way where I didn‘t have to worry about comprehending it all—even after reading it twice—whether this was intentional on the poet‘s part or not, but I could soak it up without worry, knowing it‘s about America and, judging by the title, about the over-saturation of content—at least partially that—combined with reams of cultural references, contributing to the pile-on.