“Henry Puts the Casual Back in Casualty”: Conor Bracken’s Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour
Review by Allison Pitinii Davis // December 4, 2017Bull City Press, 2017ISBN: 978-1-4951-5768-448 pp. / $12.00 In Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), winner of the 2017 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger takes the speaker on a surreal tour of international atrocities. The collection’s absurdism deglorifies and satirizes Kissinger and his neo-imperialist policies. By posing as Kissinger’s lover, the speaker inhabits a self-incriminating position. This suggests that Kissinger represents both himself but also the […]