{"product_id":"9781885635532","title":"Exit Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, \u003ci\u003eExit Theater\u003c\/i\u003e casts classical elegy, with dazzling formal innovation, into a staggering work of contemporary, political polyphony. Through monologues, performance scripts, and poems of exquisite prosody, Mike Lala examines the human figure—as subject and object, enemy and ally—in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus, Shakespeare, Cy Twombly, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals, accused terrorists, State Department employees, nuclear scientists, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e actors, war criminals, malware, and a host of mythic, literary, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony, Lala implicates every actor, including himself, in a web of shared culpability vis-à-vis consumerism, representation, speaking, writing, and making art against the backdrop of the endless, open wars of a post-Cold War, post-2001 era. \u003ci\u003eExit Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut of and against its time—a book about war, art, and what it means to make art in a time of war. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for Literary Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033005900016,"sku":"9781885635532","price":15.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781885635532_p0.jpg?v=1763605646","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781885635532","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}