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The Dug-Up Gun Museum
Series: American Poets Continuum Series
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This book is suited for readers interested in contemporary poetry, social and political issues, particularly gun culture and violence in America. It will appeal to those seeking a nuanced, poetic examination of difficult themes such as race, privilege, and national identity.
"Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms"--
- Poem to be featured on The Slowdown, hosted by Ada Limón
- National advertising: Academy of American Poets newsletter
Outreach to online media and bloggers including Ariel Levy at The New Yorker, Tess Taylor at NPR, the Boston Review, Jana Prikyl at The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Randolph at Vassar Quarterly, and David Ulin at Lit Hub.
Excerpts in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Brevity, The Common, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, On the Seawall, Southern Humanities Review, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day.
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Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms.
Matt Donovan's The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country's obsession with guns to explore America's deep-seated political divisions and issues linked to violence, race, power, and privilege. Taking its title from an actual museum located in Wyoming, this collection of poems interrogates our country's history of gun violence, asking questions about our fetishization of weapons, how mass shootings and the killing of unarmed civilians by police have become normalized, and the multitudinous ways in which firearms are ingrained in our country's culture.
Much like the poet himself, Donovan's poems are dynamic and constantly in motion as he explores the ways in which capitalism and its relentless stream of content have led to a collective desensitization in the face of violence. In turns harrowing, elegiac, and ironic, set in locations ranging from Cody to Chicago, from Las Vegas to Sandy Hook, The Dug-Up Gun Museum probes America's failures, bizarre infatuations, and innumerable tragedies linked to guns.
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Erika Meitner praises the book as a "riveting tour (and indictment) of America’s gun culture," highlighting Donovan's roles as anthropologist, empath, and critic. The collection is noted for its profound emotional impact and incisive exploration of one of the most pressing national issues through a diverse range of poetic forms. The reviews commend Donovan's ability to convey grief, rage, and curiosity, making the book a clear-eyed hymn to the gun crisis.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781950774753
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 December 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 177.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Matt Donovan is the author of two previous collections of poetry Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press) and Vellum (Mariner) as well as a book of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press). Donovan's work has been published in numerous literary journals, including AGNI,American Poetry Review, The Believer, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review,Poetry, Seneca Review, Threepenny Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Donovan is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Rome Prize in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and an NEA Fellowship in Literature. In 2017, he received a Creative Capital Grant for Inheritance, a collaborative multimedia chamber opera based on the life of Sarah Winchester. Donovan serves as Director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
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