millennYELL: diatribes of self-discovery (2022)
Historia|Reseach Press announces the release of “millennYELL: diatribes of self-discovery,” a collection of poems intending to complicate the characterization of millennials as naively hopeful or as helplessly impotent. Bryan D. Wright’s first book of poetry sweeps the personal, political, social, and cultural minefields left behind by the culture warriors of America’s previous generations. His poems are a lament for the loss of the commonweal during the past thirty years of American life and culture — while also being a rally cry to take action and seek meaning in the alienation pervading American society at the outset of the twenty-first century.
Mr. Wright’s poems in “millennYELL” are presented under four main themes of poetic expression – nihilism, longing, despair, and promise – each separated by a timeline of related events in American history from 1990 to 2020. His poetry grapples with key adversities for young adults: the tenuous grounds on which human meaning and action rest, the risks associated with desiring something over nothing, the anxiety that accompanies the pursuit of goals and values, and the latent (and dismal) prospects for success at the outset of every lifetime of endeavor. The poems – disquieting, exacting, and poignant – express key moments of personal anguish and insight that interrupted his prolonged inner dialog on the meaning of adulthood for the first generation to shape the next century and next millennium.
millennYELL: diatribes of self-discovery on Amazon Kindle on September 10, 2022, at Amazon.com.
Press Releases
“This debut volume of poetry explores the fraught experiences of today’s millennial generation.
"Wright signals his overall stance on what it is to be a millennial by the titles given to his collection’s four sections: 'niHilism,' 'lOnging,' 'desPair' and finally 'promisE.' The irregular capitalization subtly evokes the stumbling topography of a sidewalk buckled by tree roots—yet the capitals also spell out HOPE, nicely summing up the millennial experience.
"An Intriguing...poetry collection with much verbal cleverness."
