Art of Fiction
Kevin Prufer
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individualsIn this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding (whether it s cogent or delusional). Via both satire and direct address (to the point of reader-squeamishness), Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves.
