Mutiny Gallery - Softcover

Fischer, B. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161248011X ISBN 13: 9781612480114

Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr, 2011

Synopsis

A road trip novel-in-verse, Mutiny Gallery follows a mother and son on an exuberant cross-country journey to outposts of Americana. Fleeing domestic peril, Claire embarks with her young son Max on a continental zigzag through psychic and actual states of dislocation, abandon, and absolution. With candor and verve, these poems intertwine terms of class, consumer culture, self-invention, race, rebellion, faith, freedom, and the erotics of the everyday. B. K. Fischer's luminous collection navigates a woman's quest to traverse the American landscape with her wits intact, a quest that catches her in nets of caregiving and crisis, love and loss.

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From the Inside Flap

Poem after poem, this book channels its brilliance into a novel-in-verse without dulling the light. These poems display cleverness, wittiness, and innovative technique, for which one usually pays a price: a draining away of heart. Not in this case—these poems all have heart, big heart. It's a terrific book, a fine accomplishment. —Tony Barnstone As ever in these situations, the characters must keep telling who they are in order to recall who they were, to discover who they will be: this mother and son are escaping Everything, even each other, and of course all they flee is all they find: Surely a seedy love scene is coming up, a cheap fling, except she is traveling with a chaperone too young to leave.Crisscrossing a USA of nightmare museums where Edward Lear is King and the Queen of Heartache is Alice, of course they're in heaven if only they could stop anywhere, somewhere... Already heaven. In the Next-to-Last Museum, word is out: Her son, lifting a bowl to drink. She lets the breeze pick up the page again, weights it down with her free hand.America has given B. K. Fischer the Dream and she gives back all she woke to find: Mutiny Gallery! Her visionary poetry is a good mother's song, her novel a bad boy's scream. As another of those, I salute her and the revels I long to join.—Richard Howard

About the Author

B. K. Fischer holds degrees in writing from Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities, and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. She is the author of a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry, and her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, The Hopkins Review, FIELD, Southwest Review, Crab Orchard Review, Literary Mama, and other journals. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York with her husband and three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 161248011X
• ISBN 13: 9781612480114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 91