The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin by Clark, Charlie

The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin

In The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin, poet Charlie Clark interrogates masculinity, the pastoral, the...
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Author: Charlie Clark
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The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin by Clark, Charlie

The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin

CHF 22.71

The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin

CHF 22.71
Author: Charlie Clark
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin, poet Charlie Clark interrogates masculinity, the pastoral, the lasting inheritance of one's lineage, and the mysterious every day. His speaker, ever aware of impending ruin, experiences a landscape colored by anxiety. But his speaker is also self-aware, curious and trying to refrain from too much self-judgement: "I am sorry / for this cruel wish, but I want my life to outlast / bitterness." The speaker turns over and over the materials of culture, asking what pleasure it creates, replicates, diminishes, or destroys. When the tension runs too high, the poet creates moments of relief: "Suffering is not a philosophy any more than rain is." Readers follow a speaker searching for ways to enjoy living within a damaged and declining world. Rich in image and wide-eyed, the beautiful, the plain, the ugly coexist in a debut collection 15 years in the making.

Author: Charlie Clark
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781945588525

About the Author
Charlie Clark's poetry has appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and other journals. He studied poetry at the University of Maryland. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was a 2019 NEA fellow in poetry. He lives in Austin, TX.


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