Exit Theater ( Colorado Prize for Poetry )

Publication series :Colorado Prize for Poetry

Author: Mike Lala  

Publisher: University Press Of Colorado‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781885635549

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781885635532

Subject: I106.2 Poetry

Keyword: 诗歌,世界文学

Language: ENG

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Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Winner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry

Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Exit Theater casts classical elegy, with dazzling formal innovation, into a staggering work of contemporary, political polyphony. Through monologues, performance scripts, and poems of exquisite prosody, Mike Lala examines the human figure—as subject and object, enemy and ally—in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus, Shakespeare, Cy Twombly, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals, accused terrorists, State Department employees, nuclear scientists, Saturday Night Live actors, war criminals, malware, and a host of mythic, literary, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony, Lala implicates every actor, including himself, in a web of shared culpability vis-à-vis consumerism, representation, speaking, writing, and making art against the backdrop of the endless, open wars of a post–Cold War, post-2001 era. Exit Theater is a debut of and against its time—a book about war, art, and what it means to make art in a time of war. 

Chapter

Lydia

The Fire that Consumes All before It

Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects

In the Gun Cabinet

drapery

there’s a violence

as it emptied

nocturne

a closet

on the mantle

& here from my window

the bodies you inhabit

a thief

the theater of fear

two playgrounds

in the hospitality of war

Interview

Exit Theater

Song / Little Myth

See: Enemy

As Her Myriad Aggressors

As His Myriad Objections

Twenty-Four Exits

If Nothing Else, Pleasure

Self_Interrogation

Notes & Acknowledgements

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