Craig Czury's Volume of Prose Poetry, Fifteen Stones, as a Site of Resistance against the Neoliberal Consensus
Craig Czury's Volume of Prose Poetry, Fifteen Stones, as a Site of Resistance against the Neoliberal Consensus

Summary/Abstract: The present article brings to the attention of European readers and literary criticism the volume of prose poetry Fifteen Stones (2015) of the contemporary North American poet Craig Czury. Even though Craig Czury is the author of more than twenty books, many of them being translated into Albanian, Russian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Spanish, and Italian, there is very little literary criticism in relation to his works, particularly in Europe. Our analysis demonstrates that the controversial nature of prose poetry allows Craig Czury to create his poetical sites of resistance against the contemporary neoliberal consensus. Most of the prose poems included in the volume have the form of monologues, bearing a marked autobiographical character, revealing personal life experiences, sometimes traumatic ones, and carrying us into the vast geographical and cultural spaces the poet has travelled to, but also into surrealist scenarios of his imagination.

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