Rooks

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ISBN-10:

0978610539

ISBN-13:

9780978610531

Author(s): Gil Fagiani
Edition: 2nd
Released: Mar 15, 2007
Format: Perfect Paperback, 75 pages

Description:

In his second collection of poetry, Gil Fagiani is a rook, the deepest bucket of whale sh*t in the deepest part of the ocean, as the epigram tells us. The reader follows the poet through freshman year at Pennsylvania Military College, Class of 1967, where the spotlight is on the time-honored discipline that transforms young men into elite warriors. We sit with him on the third floor of Howell Hall, zipped up in his cadet blouse/hair cut back to the bone. PMC is located in the heart of the decaying city of Chester, Pennsylvania. Fagiani sets these vastly different worlds into a brilliant counterpoint: one is antiseptic and ordered, the other, shabby and chaotic. In Local Girls the daughters of immigrant Ukranians and Poles who pull double shifts/in front of the blast furnaces/of Penn State Casting speed past the cadets, a cloud of gray locusts, in banged-up Chevies. While organized violence is bred at PMC, the violence that spills from the town is fitful and random. We visit Ukranian Hall, where somebody smashes a glass pitcher/and waves the bloody handle. And The Chester Arms is the bar where cadets and the locals collide, and the Isley Brothers preach/the gospel of pussy while customers slug it out. An aura of presentiment hovers over Rooks: military escalation in Vietnam, political assassinations, burning cities, the larger social conflagration about to engulf America. The imagery of these poems is full of sh*t-on-a-shingle, grenade throws, latrines, swagger sticks, but there are also golden-yellow/daisy faces/crushed in the imprints/of tank treads. Fagiani's language, sometimes gritty and humorous, is always energized and passionate. He suspends his poems often in midair, shocking them into silence.

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