From Michael Bazzett , poet and translator of The Popol Vuh , a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining.
He lives in Minneapolis..
His work has appeared in Ploughshares , Massachusetts Review , Pleiades , Guernica , Virginia Quarterly Review , Copper Nickel , The Rumpus , and Best New Poets .
Bazzett is a poet, teacher, and 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow.
He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh .
About author(s): Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber , as well as five other collections of poems, including The Interrogation and You Must Remember This , winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry.
By turns searing, compassionate, and darkly humorous, The Echo Chamber creates an Echo through time, holding up the broken mirror of myth to our present-day selves.
In the process, Bazzett cements his status as one of our great poetic fools--the comedian who delivers uncomfortable silence, who sheds layers of disguises to reveal light underneath, who smuggles wisdom within "rage-mothered laughter." Late-stage capitalism, history, death itself: all are subject to his wry, tender gaze.
The Echo Chamber examines our endlessly self-referential age of selfies and televised wars and manufactured celebrity, gazing lingeringly into the many kinds of damage it produces, and the truths obscured beneath its polished surface.
And the myth itself is retold, probing its most provocative qualities--how reflective waters enable self-absorption, the tragic rightness of Echo and Narcissus as a couple.
A book reveals eerie transmutations of a simple story.
A man goes looking for his face and is first offered a latex mask.
A time traveler teaches a needleworker the pleasures of social media gratification. // He liked his image / still." In The Echo Chamber , myth is refracted into our current moment. "Narcissus was never one to see himself // in moving water.
From Michael Bazzett , poet and translator of The Popol Vuh , a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining
