Missing you metropolis poems6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() (Think John Wayne in The Green Berets before the military escalation, being replaced in the aftermath by Robert DeNiro in The Deer Hunter.)Īlthough DC superheroes Superman and Batman had been around since the late 1930s, it was the introduction in the 1960s of Marvel’s comic book anti-heroes Spider-man, Iron Man, the Hulk, etc. The world of the superhero is the cultural component many male adolescents turned to as they attempted to reconstruct new icons to fill the void left by those erased or radically altered after the war. ![]() Gary Jackson’s collection, Missing You, Metropolis, (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize) explores the impact pop culture, as defined by the rise in stature of the comic book superhero, had on individual and generational development in the United States during the years following the Vietnam war. ![]() A Juror Must Fold … by Kathleen McClung.A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron.The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola.I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell. ![]() Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose.Visiting Her in Queens … by Michael Mark.The Morning You Saw … by CooXooEii Black.“Ocean Ancient and Evolving” by Kat Lehmann.“Lights Turn Off in May at the Gateway Arch to Assist Migratory Birds” by Wendy Videlock.“After Senza Titolo” by Matthew Gavin Frank.“Ode to the Automobile and Human Happiness” by Alicia Ostriker. ![]()
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