Dread (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Florence Anthony
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Abused persons, Murder or homicide, Twenty-first century, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Victims, Violence, Pain, Women, Death or dying, Disasters, Terrorism or terrorists, Survival
Ai’s collection Dread won the prestigious National Book Award for poetry. Like her earlier collections, it focuses on the immediacy of pain and death and gives the reader a view of these through those who suffer and inflict them.
These poems center on both personal and national disasters—from a bastard child’s feeling of rejection to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001—and include poems based on Ai’s early life as well as glimpses of deaths in distant environments, from terrorism or in situations of war. The book jacket states that some...
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