Live at the Bitter End - Softcover

Pavlic, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989979768 ISBN 13: 9780989979764

Publisher: Saturnalia Books, 2018

Synopsis

Recasting the “trial of the century,” Ed Pavli ’s vertiginous new collection puts a century of segregation on trial for its soul Set in the vernacular origins of modernity, Live at the Bitter End puts the racialized logic of 20th century aesthetics on trial. Mixing anonymous voices with the testimonies of figures such as Paul Cézanne, Charles Mingus, Emma Bardac, Erik Satie, Alberto Giacometti, Billie Holiday, Pierre Bonnard, Samuel Beckett, Miles Davis, and others, Ed Pavli weaves a playfully raucous and intimately violent work of satirical force. Adhering to the structure of a murder trial, Live at the Bitter End bears lyrical witness to racial separation, masquerade, mongrelization, and communion to show how those connections (in love, lust, trust and betrayal) sound deep in the textures of who we are.

About this title

About the Author:

ED PAVLIC is author of seven collections of poems, and a two-time National Poetry Series winner. He has published essays, poems, fiction, and dramatic pieces in numerous magazines and journals, including Boston Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. He is Distinguished Research Professor and teaches in the English department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Review:

“Black history is the history of poetry, wherein the line between ‘live flesh & dead meat’ is fine. Ed Pavli walks that line with dispossessive abandon, dispersed in groundedness like Charlie Haden or William Parker.” (Fred Moten)

About this edition

• Publisher: Saturnalia Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0989979768
• ISBN 13: 9780989979764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80