Alexandra Teague

In poems that bring together traditional American patriotic songs and current American horrors—and in which Yeats' famous apocalyptic figure of the Rough Beast takes a painting class, wears a spacesuit, and listens to public service announcements—Ominous Music Intensifying takes on the too-muchness of contemporary, apocalypse-prone America with humour, conscience, and the occasional fiddle duel. In this fourth book of poetry,...