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Seven American Deaths And Disasters
Kenneth Goldsmith
powerHouse Books
March 2013
On Sale: March 12, 2013
178 pages ISBN: 1576876365 EAN: 9781576876367 Kindle: B00CRH2XR2 Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
What are the words we use to describe something that we
never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American
Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes
historic radio and television reports of national tragedies
as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich
linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its
title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same
name, Goldsmith recasts the mundane as the iconic, creating
a series of prose poems that encapsulate seven pivotal
moments in recent American history: the John F. Kennedy,
Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the space
shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9/11,
and the death of Michael Jackson. While we've become
accustomed to watching endless reruns of these tragic
spectacles—often to the point of cliché—once rendered in
text, they become unfamiliar, and revealing new dimensions
emerge. Impartial reportage is revealed to be laced with
subjectivity, bias, mystery, second-guessing, and, in many
cases, white-knuckled fear. Part nostalgia, part myth,
these words render pivotal moments in American history
through the communal lens of media.
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