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The Shore

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The Shore by Chris Nealon presents five poem-essays that delve into the complexities of contemporary life. The collection embraces feelings of bafflement and dismay while opening paths to hope. Through a queer and anti-capitalist lens, Nealon navigates intersections of race, class, age, and gender, urging readers to resist fear and consider the connections between beauty, friendship, and politics in today’s era of crisis.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that tackles social and political themes with nuance and wit. Suitable for those who appreciate queer perspectives and philosophical explorations in poetic form.

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Capacious works that explore social and political strife with simultaneous tenderness and strength.

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The five poem-essays of Chris Nealon's The Shore give space and voice to the complexity of contemporary life, admitting bafflement and dismay but also creating openings for indiscreet hope.

Queer and anti-capitalist, they urge us not to be ruled by our fears, while always ethically navigating the forces—race, class, age, gender, and others—that put us each in different places of power.

Nimbly exploring connections among beauty, friendship, and politics, The Shore gives our era of crisis a language at once vernacular and philosophical, in a form that's both teeming and fluid.

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Johns Hopkins Magazine describes Nealon's political poetry as a playful and self-aware exploration of unease, moving beyond traditional activist tones. The Volta praises Nealon's work for its blend of delight and caution, likening it to a modern Homer with the voice of both god and jester.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781940696980

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 104

About the Author

Chris Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (Harvard, 2011), as well as three earlier books of poetry: The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004), Plummet (Edge Books, 2009), and Heteronomy (Edge, 2014). He lives in Washington, DC.

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