Fludde
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Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of our received ideas.
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Peter Mishler was born and raised in New Jersey. He earned a BFA in literature from Emerson College and both an MS in English Education and an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and his work has appeared in Diagram, Black Warrior Review, Redivider, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and the anthology Best New Poets 2013, among other places. Mishler curates a contemporary poetry interview series for Literary Hub. He lives in Kansas City.
Content
Old World
Sublunary Life
Paternity Test
Centuars in the Turnpike Woods
Workhorse
From the Incorporated Limits
Salvation Army
Mild Invective
Surf City
General Hospital
Family Farm
To a Feverish Child
Noye
Tenor
Refrain
Blind Minotaur Being Led by a Child
Rations
From the Overflow Hotel
Landscape
Central Casting
The Head in the Orchard
Study for the Boatsman
Geryon
Fludde
Morning Myth
Swim Club Kate in the City of Dis
Haruspex
Human Water
Overall Message
Unreasonable Myth
Demolition
Periphery
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Vision
A Romance
Mount Airy Resort and Casino
On Quality Hill
Boy Rowing Asleep
Little Tom Dacre in Heaven
The Woodman's Ring
Astrolabe
