Bøger af Jackson Burgess

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Established in 2012, Fractal is a literary magazine founded and edited by students of the University of Southern California. Fractal publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in print and electronic format. Volume 1: Issue 3 includes work by Amanda Allen, J.M. Baker, J. Bradley, Andrea Chan, Michael Cooper, Tim Craven, Jim Davis, Demi Demirkol, Meg Eden, Kokua Farrell, M. Krochmalnik Grabois, Harrison James, Christina Katopodis, Kelsey Kerr, Steve Klepetar, Kelsey Lueptow, Stephanie Pushaw, Daniel Rogers, Julia Rox, Laura Rutledge, David Schaefer, and Traci Thomas.

This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.

In his moving debut collection, Jackson Burgess examines heartbreak, depression, and empathy through a lens of rigorous introspection. Dive bars, gas stations, bedrooms, and snowfields comprise the setting as the speaker asks: What do we feel? What should we feel? Who gets to feel what?Atrophy's poems vary in location, mostly between Los Angeles and Iowa City, with reoccurring characters serving as touchstones, forming the book's narrative. Much of the collection is about or directly addresses an ex-lover, Lily. In the wake of that failed relationship, Atrophy wrestles with loneliness, substance abuse, and dissociation, utilizing lists, letters, prose poems, and free verse.These poems celebrate the past while mourning it, armed with the advantage of retrospect. Prescription drugs, dog fights, dance parties, love letters, and ghosts-the world depicted is at times dark, at times humorous, but always human. Atrophy is vulnerable and cinematic, a series of manic meditations exploring what it means to love and be loved, to hurt and be hurt.