Year of What Now Poems

Name: Year of What Now Poems
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ISBN: 9781555976484

ISBN-10: 1555976484

ISBN-13: 9781555976484

Edition: 2013

Authors: Brian Russell

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Debut poetry by Brian Russell, winner of the Bakeless Poetry PrizeThe year of what nowAre we the pure products and whatDoes that even mean pure isn’t itObvious we are each our own cultureAlive with the virus that’s waitingTo unmake us. —from “The Year of What Now”“The Year of What Nowis not a book of poems about cancer. It’s not a book that wears its heart on its sleeve. It doesn’t parade the autobiographical in your face, though the conventions seem at first to be autobiography. It’s not a cryin extremis,de profundis, etc. It’s more casual, more canny, more casually well-made, more philosophically oriented . . . This book seems to me to represent a way…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 7/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Introduction



It's a Strange City


We Remain This Way


In the Event


Waiting for Radiation


On Airs Waters and Places


The Year of What Now


For Good


Again and Again


Meanwhile Here on Earth


The Universe Said co Invoke Infinity


Preface


Awash


Crisis and Confidence


X-Ray


The Rhythm of the Empire


Lightness Arises from the Usual Gravity


Love and Later


Our Hour of Suspense


The Long Haul


No One in Particular


What Makes It Worse


The Royal Society


Romance of the Unfamiliar


In the Wing of Catastrophe


Emergence and Emergency


Everything Every Time


In the Dark and Wait


Pageant of Squandered Fortunes


Hell Is Everyone


The Higher Order


Economies of Scale


Nerves


The Poor Souls of the Faithful


Vital


Because It Feeds Us


Another Instance in Which I'm Good for Nothing


Base Pairs


Acceptance


To the Prospects of the Experimental


Tepid


They Run You


Deep into the Treatments


Apollo the Healer


In a Sedimental Mood


Disproving the Humors


Belongings


Back to You


The Renaissance


Get Used to It


By Now


The History of Right Now


Given Everything


A Good Year


Disgrace


You're Supposed to Laugh


Physical Therapy


You're Welcome


As Soon as We're Outside


Swell