Homeslice

Dayton J. Shafer's HOMESICE is a regaling, a rhapsodizing on a singular swath of millennialhood-the '81-'85 babies, the elders. Part document, part performance, part poetry, these call-and-response nonfiction monologues address and deconstruct the turn of the millennium's most repressed issues-privilege and enabling, communal trauma, cognitive dissonance, evolving masculinity, artistic portraits, and fallen idols. Framed with the interactive rhetorical refrain: Is Your American Dream-, each monologue casts the reader as a chorus member in the meaning-making process-asking him to examine directly how the American individual can be a citizen of both society and self.

Author: Dayton J. Shafer
Publisher: Alternating Current Press
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 78
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9781946580375

About the Author
Shafer, Dayton J.: - DAYTON J. SHAFER's pieces have been featured in fringe festivals, barns, abandoned factories, converted laundromats, black boxes, street sides, and with Vermont Public Radio, the Susan Calza Gallery, PoemCity, and Split Lip Magazine. He's a former writing fellow at Vermont Studio Center, managing editor of Hunger Mountain Literary Journal, and grant recipient from the Montpelier Public Arts Commission.