Sufficiency of the Actual - 9780252076008

Sufficiency of the ActualAuthor(s): Kevin Stein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252076008, 978-0252076008\nSynopsis\nIn this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of historys bicep. Musical and refreshingly unaffected, Steins poems yoke the domains of high and low art. His poems address subjects by turns surprising, edgy, and humorous. They offer musings on the Slinky and the atomic bomb, elegies for a miscarried pregnancy and the late physicist Edward Teller, reflections on night-shift factory work and President Eisenhowers golf caddy, and meditations on the politics of post-colonialism and a youthful antiwar streaking incident. Against this vi.