Lala, Mike, authorThe Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher2016-11-282016-11-282016http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178258Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Exit Theater 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 de-figured and hostile world. Catullus, Shakespeare, Cy Twombly, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals, accused terrorists, State Department employees, nuclear scientists, Saturday Night Live 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-a-vis consumerism, representation, speaking, writing, and making art against the backdrop of the endless, open wars of a post-Cold War, post-2001 era. Exit Theater 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.Say Goodbye to the Shores -- Say to the Shores. Suite w/ a View for the Ends of Our Days -- Lydia -- The Fire that Consumes All before It -- Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects -- In the Gun Cabinet. drapery -- there's a violence -- as it emptied -- nocturne -- a closet -- on the mantle -- & here from my window -- the bodies you inhabit -- a thief -- the theater of fear -- two playgrounds -- in the hospitality of war -- Interview -- Exit Theater. Song / Little Myth -- See: Enemy -- As Her Myriad Aggressors -- As His Myriad Objections -- Twenty-Four Exits -- If Nothing Else, Pleasure -- Self_Interrogation.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact The Center for Literary Publishing, attn: Permissions at creview@colostate.edu for use information.Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- PoetryJustice -- PoetryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.