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The Treatment of Monuments
by Alan Gilbert

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• Release date: December 1, 2012
• Language: english
• Genres: poetry
• Author: Alan Gilbert
• ISBN: 9780985811105 (0985811102)
• Format: paperback, 90 pages
• Publisher: SplitLevel Texts

About The Book

he Treatment of Monuments collects four long poems written in varying styles. The first poem in the book, “Relative Heat Index,” is a serial poem in twenty-three parts that attempts to capture the personal and political climate of the United States plunged by its leaders into war following the September 11 attacks. Influenced by Robert Hayden’s “Words in the Mourning Time” and George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous,” which were similarly written during a decade of war and social upheaval, “Relative Heat Index” uses a fragmentary approach to speak the unspoken while also leaving spaces of silence to indicate the impossibility of fully capturing in a single poem the totality of war — domestic and abroad — and its devastations.

The second poem, “More Morphine,” consists of twenty pages of dense, extended stanzas written in long lines that reflect the material and visual oversaturation of contemporary commodity culture. In this poem, the ways in which information is transmitted becomes the focus as much as the information itself. The effect combines direct statement with patches of static and borderline nonsense, as an attempt is made to tune in various channels simultaneously. The result is a disjunctive mode of communication that owes a partial debt to the playful logorrhea of underground hip-hop. Though a fast poem, it can never be quick enough to corral the spectacle-based culture it’s trying to catch.

The third poem, “Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me” (titled after a song by country-and-western singer Marty Robbins), is a twisting poem in short tercets revealing the grotesque and absurd lodged within everyday life. It’s a spiraling barrage of images and debris extruded by the war machine, political elections, celebrity culture, and the onslaught of advertisements to which people are constantly subjected. In its form and in its weaving of a constructed sense of self within complicated social and cultural contexts, the poem is partly influenced by Harryette Mullen’s book-length poem Muse & Drudge. Personal experience blurs with what appears on screen, as the peaks and valleys of the preceding two poems are flattened out into a glossy buffet of seemingly limitless consumer choices and the transitory identities accompanying them.

The fourth and final poem, “Bye-Bye, Big Wow,” contains twelve interrelated poems written in a more intimate and confessional voice. Words and phrases are recycled throughout the poem in an effort both to build their emotional resonance and to disfigure them. Occasionally stark disclosures combine with direct references to the violence embedded in contemporary life — a violence inflicted domestically (and interpersonally) and by U.S. militarism globally. The figure of policing that appears throughout the book becomes more direct and immediate in this poem. Resistance and complicity engage in a fraught dance in keeping with the book’s intent to depict recent U.S. politics and culture as filtered through the media, social experience, and autobiography.

The Treatment of Monuments encompasses a wide range of human experience, and isn’t hesitant to confront darker issues of loss and fear. At the same time, a sense of humor and the ridiculous underlies the entire book. Traces of various poetic influences will be obvious in the writing (Black Mountain, New York School, Language poetry, hip-hop), but the end result is unique. In certain respects, the author’s approach to writing this manuscript was that it have the effect of a short novel as much as a collection of poems. At other moments, the work resembles nonfiction prose cast into verse. The hope is that upon completing it readers will come away with a richly layered understanding of everyday life and its larger social dimensions.

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