Podcast: Harvey Hix discusses his book  American Outrage and gun violence.

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation between Professors Harvey Hix and Stephen Dillon about Hix’s book American Outrage: A Testamentary, a work of poetry that is also a compendium of extensive research about gun violence in the United States. It memorializes the lives lost, while also representing the data, concepts, and ideas through which we attempt to make sense of the problem. 

The conversation reflects the breadth and depth of the book under discussion, covering Hix’s motivation for writing American Outrage, the book’s unique structure, the challenges of comprehending gun violence, inequities in how human lives are valued and recorded, and much more.

If you'd like to read passages from the book before listening, you can find scans of pages read during the podcast here.


Here are the links for Spotify and Apple:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fHxNrKyp1BX9VYhMssK1E?si=1acea122a166412e

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humanities-conversations/id1779155909?i=1000700936138

 

Buy the book, American Outrage: A Testamentary,

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org
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