![]() Caligulan is a masterful new collection from a commanding and original poetic voice. In four chapters of fourteen poems each, Hilbert leads the reader through modern America's triumphs and tragedies, elusive consolations and primeval horrors, all the while telling jokes, posing questions, and sounding warnings of things to come. Anyone can search the archive and browse results, but only subscribers can read the underlying articles. Use the search bars to scan for keywords in our Archive or via Exact Editions, or narrow the search field by using the Indexed Categories. Leaving behind the experimental sonnet forms he pioneered in his earlier books, Sixty Sonnets and All of You on the Good Earth, Hilbert delivers a chorus of poems that are conversational yet bizarre, stormy and surreal yet dexterously accomplished brash, abrupt, and sometimes scathingly sarcastic. Search every issue of The Book Collector since 1948. Įrnest Hilbert's newest poetry collection, Caligulan is heartrending and humorous, filled with love songs and requiems, meditations and memorials, as the poet imagines the ghost of the ruthless Roman emperor Caligula-who ruled over a pagan empire as prosperous as it was unaccountably cruel-looming over modern America, pronouncing his infamous commandment that his victims be killed slowly, "so that they know they are dying." Caligulan is at once terrifying and touching, a book haunted by the poet's many affections and angers, its poems animated by horror films and science fiction novels, heavy metal and opera, remote wilderness and ruined cities. Ernest Hilbert's newest poetry collection, Caligulan is heartrending and humorous, filled with love songs and requiems, meditations and memorials, as the poet imagines the ghost of the ruthless Roman emperor Caligula-who ruled over a pagan empire as prosperous as it was unaccountably cruel-looming over modern America, pronouncing his infamous commandment that his victims be killed slowly, "so that they know they are dying." Caligulan is at once terrifying and touching, a book haunted by the poet's many affections and. ![]()
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