{"id":9907,"date":"2017-02-07T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=9907"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:33:26","slug":"late-empire-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/late-empire-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Late in the Empire of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWinner of the 2015 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, judged by Martha Collins.<\/p>\n

Late in the Empire of Men<\/em><\/h1>\n

Christopher Kempf<\/h2>\n

Late in the Empire of Men<\/em>, Kempf\u2019s powerful debut collection, reads the author\u2019s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire\u2014both political and anthropocentric\u2014by looking back to Rome and Carthage and by glancing forward to a time when, as he writes in the poem \u201cDominion,\u201d \u201cthe idea of people\/ is over.\u201d Employing a baroque layering of image and allusion, patterned sonic texturing, and post-narrative self-consciousness, Kempf reveals how commonplace rhetorical practices\u2014football\u2019s valorization of a \u201cwarrior ethos,\u201d for example\u2014work to conscript young American men, in particular, into patterns of thought and behavior constitutive of an imperialist state.<\/p>\n

“High School Graduation Party,\u201d from Late in the Empire of Men<\/em>:<\/p>\n

They are all, of course, entirely too\ncool to be here.  They have learned exactly\nthat look of certain, self-assured contempt\nthey will wear this summer, bound, most of them,\nfor some lush campus somewhere their parents\u2019\nparents, dead now, never saw.  For their small\ndark rooms of Bacardi & sex. Envy\nis not the word. Though I am old enough \nnow to understand there is no pleasure \n<\/pre>\n
more lasting than a Sunday afternoon in Ohio, in the sunlight, with cake & bunting, I admire, still, their studied turning away. Who wouldn\u2019t? In a different century, we would send them to war.<\/div>\n
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[column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 80 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-87-1 Add to Cart Watch a Special Video from the Author [\/column] Winner of the 2015 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, judged by Martha Collins. Late in the Empire of Men Christopher Kempf Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf\u2019s powerful debut collection, reads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9907","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18499,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9907\/revisions\/18499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}