Oracle Bones: Poems from the Time of Misrule

by Keith Holyoak

Oracle Bones is a new form of political satire-the state of current American politics reimagined as a sequence of poetic warnings to a foolish and dissolute king who ruled back at the dawn of Chinese civilization. Thousands of years ago, a shaman would query the gods by carving a question on a bone and applying heat until cracks formed. The answer was then recorded on the "oracle bone." Keith Holyoak-poet, psychologist, and translator of classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978797523
• ISBN13: 9780978797522
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Goldfish Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"