Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Powerful, concise, and loaded with ideas, commentary, and images, MIXAGE is a beautiful and compact collage of race relations, folk songs, language play, and "sixties flashbacks." From poetic interpretations/presentations of lynchings to minimal "formulas for a Dylan song," A.L. Nielson's collection of poems presents a metapoetic analysis of America's past along with a hopeful subtext for its future. Linguistically progressive, politically blunt, subtly humorous, and poetically unique, MIXAGE is an incredible mixture of poetic elements, ideals, and parameters.
About the Author
Aldon Lynn Nielsen is Kelly Professor of American Literature at Pennsylvania State University and author of several books, including Reading Race, VEXT, and STEPPING RAZOR.