Red Epic
<div><p><I>Red Epic</I> invents a volatile poetry for a world on fire, written to illuminate the wreckage of the most recent gilded age. Leaping levels from global systems to street fights and back again, accompanied by a Top 40 soundtrack full of Robyn and M.I.A., it remixes utopian hope and revolutionary antagonism.</p><p>Lauded by sources from Judith Butler to <I>Entertainment Weekly</I>, <B>Joshua Clover</B>'s poetry has received multiple honors including a <I>Village Voice</I> book of the year. He has written four books and contributed to the <I>New York Times</I>, the <I>New Yorker</I>, and <I>GQ</I>; his column "Pop and Circumstance" appears in the <I>Nation</I>. He teaches at the University of California Davis.</p></div>