{"product_id":"9781935536871","title":"Late in the Empire of Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry (2015)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate 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 “Dominion,” “the idea of people\/is over.” Employing a baroque layering of image and allusion, patterned sonic texturing, and post-narrative self-consciousness, Kempf reveals how commonplace rhetorical practices—football’s valorization of a “warrior ethos,” for example—work to conscript young American men, in particular, into patterns of thought and behavior constitutive of an imperialist state.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044088529136,"sku":"9781935536871","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935536871_p0.jpg?v=1763656084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935536871","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}