Late in the empire of men

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Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire―both political and anthropocentric―by looking back to Rome and Carthage and by glancing forward to a time when, as he writes in the poem /5(4).

Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry () Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf's powerful debut collection, reads the author's coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire--both political and anthropocentric--by looking back to Rome and Carthage/5(20).

Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, judged by Martha Collins. Late in the Empire of Men Christopher Kempf. Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire—both political and.

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Book Review. Late in the Empire of Men. Poetry. By Christopher Kempf. Reviewed By Benjamin Voigt. Four Way Books () 80 pages; $; Buy this book “Before I was a man I was a man / made of pixels,” Christopher Kempf writes in “Oregon Trail,” a poem early in his prize-winning debut.

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K. Shaw Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums--characteristically Western institutions--emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.

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Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity.

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