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"An exploration of memory, mourning, and humanity's precarious relationship to the Anthropocene, Christopher Kennedy's The Strange God Who Makes Us documents our fragile relationship with time and the imperfect ways in which we document our lives. These prose poems written by one of the form's masters, serve both as attempts to preserve and honor the past and as a call to action to ensure an inhabitable planet for future generations"--
About the author
Christopher Kennedy is the author of
Clues from the Animal Kingdom (BOA Editions, 2018)
Ennui Prophet (BOA 2011),
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA 2007), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award,
Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press, 2003), and
Nietzsche’s Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001). He is also one of the translators of
Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil, (BOA 2013). In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Kennedy is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. He lives in Syracuse NY.
Summary
An exploration of memory, mourning, and humanity’s precarious relationship to the Anthropocene, Christopher Kennedy’s The Strange God Who Makes Us documents our fragile relationship with time and the imperfect ways in which we document our lives. These prose poems written by one of the form’s masters serve both as attempts to preserve and honor the past and as a call to action to ensure an inhabitable planet for future generations.
