The Echo Chamber: Poems Bazzett Michael
The Echo Chamber: Poems Bazzett Michael From Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a…
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The Echo Chamber: Poems Bazzett Michael
From Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining. // He liked his image / still." In The Echo Chamber, myth is refracted into our current moment. "Narcissus was never one to see himself // in moving water.
A man goes looking for his face and is first offered a latex mask. A time traveler teaches a needleworker the pleasures of social media gratification. A book reveals eerie transmutations of a simple story.
And the myth itself is retold, probing its most provocative qualities--how reflective waters enable self-absorption, the tragic rightness of Echo and Narcissus as a couple.The Echo Chamber examines our endlessly self-referential age of selfies and televised wars and manufactured celebrity, gazing lingeringly into the many kinds