The Incentive of the Maggot
From AwardAnnals
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| Author(s) | Ron Slate |
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| Subtitle | Poems |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
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| In his prize-winning debut collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate “brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.” In Slate’s words, “Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it.” | |
In his prize-winning debut collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate “brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.” In Slate’s words, “Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it.”
Recently published in The New Yorker, Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to “make the known world seem wickedly strange—a poetry that is utterly of the moment, our moment, because it sounds like nobody else.”
