The Harm Fields: Poems

David Lloyd's poetry abides in a lineage of poetic modernism, often in dialogue with poets like César Vallejo, Paul Celan, and Mahmoud Darwish. The poems in

The Harm Fields

are rich in imagery, their language a fluent mix of registers, from colloquial idioms to technical language and literary citation, and replete with multilingual puns and portmanteaux. These poems carry forward the musical values and the questioning project of the modernist lyric, but their concerns are contemporary, haunted by the ongoing brutality of the times, from Ireland to Palestine, and reaching for a language adequate to mourning, persistence, and utopian possibility.

Author: David Lloyd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780820362625