Declarable Future

Name: Declarable Future
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ISBN: 9780299292140

ISBN-10: 0299292142

ISBN-13: 9780299292140

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jennifer Boyden

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The poems in this book inhabit a world uneasily familiar and promising, but from the distance of a few possibilities into the future. In this collection of sharp, hallucinatory, and often darkly humorous poems, a lost man wanders among the towns of people who can't remember what they named the children, how to find each other's porches, or whether their buildings are still intact. That's why they need the person with the loupe. Among the poems where doorknobs emit the daily news, stone angels fall from the sky, and the floating world's harvest is whatever swims too close, the person with the loupe steadfastly verifies only what can be measured, while the lost man is witness to the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 5/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Acknowledgments



You Might Have Mentioned How the Doorknobs Worked


Small Gifts Are Thoughtful, but Require Acceptance of the World's Dismantlement


Night Pitch


The Giant


The Misunderstanding of Wool


For the Church Singers on Howard and Juniper


They Have a Point


The Lost Man Meets the Giant


Each Answer Addresses the Previous Answer


Like a Frequency, Like Looking Right at It


The Body, Being Mostly Water


The Declarable Future



David on the Phone


The Book of Various Studies


The Person with the Loupe


It's Only a Little Like You May Have Heard About


Linear


On Which the Loupe Is Found Adequate


Bad Advice


The Lost Man Meets the Person with the Loupe


At the Weapon Show


As If I Hadn't Worn It Quite Enough, Time Tattoos My Arms and Face


The Lost Man Thanks the Curtains



Which Particle the Particle



The Hearings


In This Place, Which We Have Been


The Lost Man Interprets a Code


Counting the Dead


The Lost Man with Dust


The Lost Man Disagrees with the Clouds Out of Principle


The Magician


The Person with the Loupe Confirms the Children


Low Rent


In the Hotel of Desire's Receipt


Impossible to Know Which Ring the Ring of the Answer


The Lost Man Leaves a Will