a Year & other poems (eBook)

Jos Charles (Autor)

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2022
128 Seiten
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-766-7 (ISBN)

Infos

From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. Jos Charles's poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. "e;A scandal / three cartons red / in a hedge / in / each the thousand eye research of flies."e; With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation-California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity-amid illusions of safety. "e;I wanted to believe,"e; Charles declares, "e;a corner a print leaned to / a corner can save / a people."e; Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough.Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seek-propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum-something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one's life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. "e;A current / gives as much as it has,"e; writes Charles-despite fire, despite loss.Harrowing and gorgeous, a Year & other poems is an astonishing new collection from a poet of "e;unusual beauty and lyricism"e; (New Yorker).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Book-length poems • California • Death • Depression • experimental literature • Hope • housing insecurity • Illness • LGBTQIA+ issues • Loss • Queer poetics • Survival • transgender poetics • Trump Administration • wildfires
• ISBN-10: 1-57131-766-X / 157131766X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-766-7 / 9781571317667