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Irredenta
A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the pastoral tradition.
In Irredenta , Oscar Oswald raises the prospect of pastoral opposition to state power, elaborating and investigating the genre through ethical and spiritual inquiry. As a citizen is a stranger to itself, so too does Oswald’s pastoral speaker define the tensions between identity and nationality inherent in a civic body as they are traversed across the American political land, water, and country, from the Mojave to Wisconsin.
In Irredenta , Oscar Oswald raises the prospect of pastoral opposition to state power, elaborating and investigating the genre through ethical and spiritual inquiry. As a citizen is a stranger to itself, so too does Oswald’s pastoral speaker define the tensions between identity and nationality inherent in a civic body as they are traversed across the American political land, water, and country, from the Mojave to Wisconsin.
- GenresPoetry
67 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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January 4, 2022
Beautiful debut book! Thought provoking meditations on nature, landscape, politics, and the American West. A fresh new voice in poetry!
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