Irredenta Av Oscar Oswald

<p><b>A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the pastoral tradition.</b><br>In <i>Irredenta</i>, Oscar Oswald raises the prospect of pastoral opposition to state power, elaborating and investigating the genre through ethical and spiritual inquiry. As a citizen is a stranger to itself, so too does Oswald’s pastoral speaker define the tensions between identity and nationality inherent in a civic body as they are traversed across the American political geography: land, water, and country, from the Mojave to Wisconsin.</p>