Year Zero

by Cynthia Cruz

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Genres: Poetry

32 pages, E-chap

First published February 22, 2009

About the author

Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin (Alice James Books) as well as The Glimmering Room, Wunderkammer and How the End Begins (all from Four Way Books). She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship. An essayist and art writer, her first collection of essays, Notes Toward a New Language is forthcoming. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is currently a doctoral student in Germanic Language and Literature.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks to Daniel for this recommendation! This book is a gorgeous, brutal accumulation of cultural damage.

[Lily Ruban · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Empress, I was / French saint of nosebleeds."

[kiwi · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love cruz so, so fucking much.

[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection evokes the collective consciousness begat by CNN. Through collage and catalogue, Cruz takes us on a sped-up review of the turmoil of our times.