Meditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”
Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift “billowing, unattached,” and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon’s head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves. Ungainly piano notes pour from a window and wake unexpected wonder in a lost walker. A forest grows inside a box that once held a father’s new pair of shoes. Skylab slips from its watchful orbit and careens toward Earth. A familiar chair once owned by a now absent family appears in a field of wild parsnips. Meditative and richly imaginative, these poems cast and recast the self and its relation to other selves, and to memory, history, power, and the natural world.Author: Corey Marks
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/10/2023
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780822967156
Language: English
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