Metronome

Comprising a decade of writing, James Loop's debut collection chronicles an ordinary life in patriarchal time, its subjugation and inventive resistance. In conversation with classical and modern models-particularly the Latin lyric and twentieth-century queer literatures-Metronome sounds an arcade of voices whose multiplicity, deviance, and good (and bad) humor subtly subvert authority's myths. These intricately patterned and slyly reflexive poems employ inherited forms, including pastiche, dirge, lyric, epigram, diatribe, diary, epistolary, and prayer, submitting their variations and intercessions on what's been and what is.