by L.S. Asekoff
Northwestern University Press, 2011
Paper: 978-0-8101-2708-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6493-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3551.S334F74 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Recepient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
Winner, 2012 Witter Bynner Award and Fellowship

L. S. Asekoff's Freedom Hill is a dramatic monologue divided into three sections. The first concerns the speaker's visit with his aging parents and the death of his father. The second, set at an art party, is a meditation on women, desire, and the nature of the self. In the third, we witness the effects on the speaker of a cerebral stroke, along with his gradual recovery. As readers of Asekoff's unique body of work have come to expect, this highly allusive poem encompasses a wide range of subject matter: Heidegger, C-SPAN, modern art, aging, capitalism, religion. Also familiar will be Asekoff's great variety of tone and verbal ingenuity. Although indebted to high modernism, Freedom Hill is an ambitious, thoroughly contemporary meditation on issues very much of the present.
 

See other books on: Asekoff, L.S. | Poem | Poetry
See other titles from Northwestern University Press