Applause is a collection of poems about joy and dreadmirroring the extremes of the contemporary American experience. Joy is defined in motherhood, self-conscious love, friendshipwhile dread is described through an accelerating sense of doom, and the failure of nearly all prescriptive political solutions to the world’s problems. The overall mood is one of bravado in the face of ruinthe metaphor of applause, standing there clapping, well-intentioned in a crumbling world.
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