Driving the Beast: Poems by Christopher Bakken

Driving the Beast: Poems

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Driving the Beast: Poems by Christopher Bakken

LSU Press

Driving the Beast: Poems

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Driving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken's poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in landscapes scarred by history and political turmoil. The book's back-and-forth mirroring invites readers to confront their own reflections in moments of catastrophe and wonder, and to view them alongside those of immigrants and refugees.
Book Details
Publisher:
LSU Press
ISBN:
9780807184752
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
86
Authors:
Christopher Bakken
Published Date:
2025-12-10
Language:
English
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About Christopher Bakken

Poet, translator, and essayist Christopher Bakken won the T. S. Eliot Prize for his first collection, After Greece (Truman State University Press, 2001). His subsequent books of poems are Goat Funeral (Sheep Meadow Press, 2007), Eternity & Oranges (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), and Driving the Beast (Louisiana State University Press, 2025), the last in the Sewanee Poetry Series. He also wrote the food memoir Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table (University of California Press, 2013) and, with Roula Konsolaki, translated The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios (Truman State University Press, 2007).

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