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Young Americans
Young Americans by Jackqueline Frost is a poetry collection that conjures a present teeming with the decadent violence of the confederate South
The book is a narrative of becoming in the wartime petroleum landscape of southern Louisiana. Faulknerian in its themes and in its taste for the baroque, Frost’s lyric explores the melancholy of ‘belonging to the enormous bliss of American death’ in places where one must ‘learn what love is from what it is not.’
The book is a narrative of becoming in the wartime petroleum landscape of southern Louisiana. Faulknerian in its themes and in its taste for the baroque, Frost’s lyric explores the melancholy of ‘belonging to the enormous bliss of American death’ in places where one must ‘learn what love is from what it is not.’
132 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
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July 17, 2025
[2.5] okay so this is not to say that it isn’t a beautifully written book with a message. i’m sure there is one that deeply resonates. i just couldn’t decipher it properly because the writing style was rather abstract. that’s not a bad thing, i think it’s just not for me. i like poetry that feels very prose like - this one had a lot of varying structures that confused me a bit. there were certain moments when i was like omg i get it now this is wow, and then i would just be confused as i turned the page.
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