A Precise Chaos

Résumé du livre

From Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taoromina, a life-long commitment to social evolution - and, occasionally, revolution - animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort's debut book, A Precise Chaos. Mort, who has worked as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East, distills decades of experience into something like wisdom. She dares to ask: "We, who are so righteous./Where does it lead us?" This question animates so many of the poems in this searing collection. "The men were larger than life/starting revolutions in their heads and in their classrooms,/negotiating contracts, whispering/into the ears of governors and presidents.//The men were larger than life,/so life eluded them." In a literary scene saturated with books rushing straight out of grad school, readers are sure to appreciate the worth of poetry that emerges from a life spent living.