Praise for The Murmuring Grief of the Americas Finalist for the 2024 Chicago Review of Books CHIRBy Award for Poetry Bookshop.org "100 Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Library Journal , "Books To Know in 2024" "Borzutzky continues his ongoing descent into global hell, which is capitalism, which is, in [his] rendering, turning us into robots that buy things, including lots and lots of guns. He''s not wrong.Borzutzky portrays a consciousness totally infected by the technological, political and economic developments that have led to a world where.we each spend hours every day entering our personal information into Meta''s database so they can sell it." --Craig Morgan Teicher, The New York Times "A poet of brilliance and bewilderment facing weaponized financial instruments, Borzutzky doesn''t shy away from confronting the ugly, unsavory trenches of late capitalist life." -- Booklist , starred review "In his new collection, Borzutzky portrays a violently off-kilter world. resurgent fascist, apocalypse impending, as he ranges along the United States borders and across the Americas, whose "murmuring grief" arises from the unceded territories where we all sleep.
" --David Woo, Literary Hub "Lyrical and bitingly elegiac, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas is unapologetically powerful in reclaiming individual and collective autonomy." --Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books "Daniel Borzutzky is one of the most urgent, necessary, important, & truthful writers of this epoch." --Cait O''Kane, Tripwire "In this compelling and riveting collection, Daniel Borzutzky exposes the harsh realities of current economic crises, social unrest, repressive immigration policies, and systematized bureaucracy, not just in the United States but throughout the Americas." --Leonora Simonovis, Poetry Foundation "Borzutzky remains one of contemporary poetry''s most incisive surveyors of cultural and institutional rot." -- Library Journal "It is going to take a devastatingly long time for the world to fully reckon with the beats in the heavy drums that one hears when tuning in to the books of Daniel Borzutzky. It takes a caring, tender, loving--deeply loving--human to write a book this searing. We''re fools, we''re complicit, we suffer. Skin and bones ache while reading.
The heart riles up." --Sawako Nakayasu "Art is always consumed with distinctions between the interior and the exterior of the self. Daniel Borzutzky belongs to the lineage of poets who refuse this demarcation. His poetry of anti-capital humanism converses with Canetti''s Crowds and Power . In Borzutzky''s hands, the modern cult of the individual is exposed as agent and puppet of the collective capitalist domination. But The Murmuring Grief of the Americas is also an aesthetic elation that quotes itself because it echoes so many others. It mixes the waters of the reverent with the irreverent." --Fady Joudah "In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas , Daniel Borzutzky maps massacres and environmental disasters, recording corpses that accumulate like caches of personal data.
We are nothing, he reminds us, to our nations, our corporations, and the earth that we desecrate. With wholly unmistakable precision and unrelenting vision, Borzutzky reveals the utter darkness of it all (nation, money, property) and our imperative to make something new from it." --Susan Briante Past Praise: Praise for Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 Chicago Review of Books, "Must-Read Books for March "A panoramic and formally various investigation of the evils of capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy. Borzutzky''s arresting writing sings and stuns as it addresses difficult, painful truths." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Borzutzky handles history as liquid, the past a wave forever crashing into the present. an urgently contemporary project, rejecting the pretense of retrospective distance in order to mourn from within chaos." --Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker Praise for Lake Michigan Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, 2019 "A searing indictment and an immediate, dangerous, and urgent work." -- Booklist Praise for The Performance of Becoming Human Winner of the National Book Award, 2016 "Like any good satirist, Borzutzky considers his subjectivity with the same lens he applies to the systems he critiques, and The Performance of Becoming Human is an apogee of that inquiry.
Since The Book of Interfering Bodies , Daniel Borzutzky has been the fabulist we most need because he''s unafraid to detail the truth of our oligarchy, without pedantry. In his figurative world our bodies are forced through privatized meat grinders, but funnily in the way that all dark horror stories trigger our gallows humor. I''m thrilled every time Borzutzky brings a book in the world, learn the most about reality from him." Carmen Giménez Smith.