American Music

American Music whirls readers and speaker alike in the froth of postmodern America, where the constant barrage of stimuli merges into a loud reverberating hum of confusion, and “America roils.” This is a book of poems that project; everything is moving within a broad and ranging array of allusions. The reader isn’t crushed by the dystopic world’s dispassion, and Martin isn’t agitated to despondent complacency. His tone may be terse at times but it is never bitter, and he is always astonished that we are, any of us, here at all.