BURNING IT DOWN

Darren C. Demaree — Poetry / Political Poetry / Narrative Poetry / Contemporary Poetry

Book Description

At a time so charged with volatility, from an atmosphere so polarized, and nations not only socially-distanced but divided, comes this timely collection — volcanic eruptions of the social and political injustices that ravage the landscape. Darren C. Demaree's BURNING IT DOWN is a book-length narrative sequence, a single sustained poem that follows six friends through one long, incendiary night of reckoning in the American heartland.

The sequence, \"A Night So Beautiful We Had To Burn Down the Senator's House,\" traces an odyssey of drunken protest, naked solidarity, and political arson. Through horses in creek beds, milkshakes at Denny's at 2am, revolutionary poetry shouted from the backs of cars, and the ghosts of those lost to a healthcare system designed to fail them, Demaree channels the rage of a generation into poetry of devastating precision and unexpected tenderness. Ohio becomes a microcosm for America — every gravel road a fault line, every small town a battlefield.

BURNING IT DOWN speaks directly to the social and political fractures of our time with the urgency of a dispatch from the front lines. Portions of the sequence were published in Advaitam Speaks, Boomer Lit, Cape Rock, Cleaver, Figure 1, Gasher, Gnarled Oak, Killjoy, Serving House, Spectrum, Tipton Poetry Journal, Warscapes, and where is the river.

Author Bio

DARREN C. DEMAREE is the author of numerous poetry collections, including six titles with 8th House Publishing: AS WE REFER TO OUR BODIES, LADY YOU SHOT ME, MANY FULL HANDS APPLAUDING INELEGANTLY, NUDE MALE WITH ECHO, NOT FOR ART NOR PRAYER, and BURNING IT DOWN. His poems are characterized by their precision, energy, and ability to find beauty in the smallest of margins. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and he has been widely recognized as one of the most prolific and distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry.

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AS WE REFER TO OUR BODIES, LADY YOU SHOT ME, MANY FULL HANDS APPLAUDING INELEGANTLY, NUDE MALE WITH ECHO, NOT FOR ART NOR PRAYER (all published by 8th House Publishing)

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