Road Film

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Road Film is written by Ernest Loesser and published by Emergency Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0989473635 (ISBN 10) and 9780989473637 (ISBN 13).

Framed as a cinematic odyssey, Road Film owes its debt to the famous road movies from the 1960s–80s. Every reader rides shotgun on a trajectory into an American imagination full of joy and angst. Loesser’s mix of prose and verse displays the best of the tradition of the New Sentence—and his work as a journalist in New York as a young man, post 9/11. The result reassembles all the broken episodes collected along the lost highways of America: discarded and violent news reports, local and violent rumors, and the unverifiable stories passed from one traveler to the next. Much like his previous work, Touched by Lightning, Loesser uses a reportorial instinct to transfigure the recurrent patterns he finds as a poet in the isolated corners of our homeland. Throughout Road Film, the driver races between two coasts; he jumps from the city into the wilderness—always skirting the moribund American suburbs, and though there be familiar faces, the author’s route never leads toward that simple place called home.