| Description |
94 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Haiku (failed) -- Fire -- False prophet -- Jesus knew -- Air -- Imagination -- Greetings, friend (minotaur) -- Kedge -- The baffled king composing hallelujah -- Earth -- Hello, birdy -- Forgetting something -- Almost song -- Self-exam (my body is a cage) -- Water -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- Oh here -- Seven testimonies (redacted) -- Dear lady of perpetual something -- E. corpse -- Pulse (hidden bird) -- Saudade. |
| Summary |
"What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gathering sonic force. It's as if all the noise that fills our days were a storm, yet at the center is a quiet place, but to get there you must first pass through the storm, with eyes wide open, singing. Each poem becomes a hallucinatory, shifting experience, through jump cut, lyric persuasion, and deadpan utterance."--Dust jacket. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099
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| Subject |
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781555975746 (alk. paper) |
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1555975747 (alk. paper) |
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