Anybody : poems / Ari Banias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banias, Ari, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 95 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Summary:

"In Anybody, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways he and she, us and them, here and elsewhere are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns--the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop--he finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a this instead of a that. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Some kind of we

At any given moment

Narrative

Wilder,

On pockets

Giant snowballs

Who you're about to be

Grandchild

An arrow

Solve for x

Close

One possible reading among many

Villagers

Morphology

Double mastectomy

The flattened grass that holds your shape

The men

Being with you makes me think about

Exquisite corpse

The feeling

Prairie restoration project

To the god of sobriety

Handshake

A sunset

Your wild domesticated inner life

Where we sit watching

Wedding

Enough

Who is ghost

A version

Aren't we

Gay bars

Hog

Bouquet

Find love in Brooklyn now!

The hole

Still here

Authentic city

Volley

Horizontal

Recognition is the misrecognition you can bear

Various attentions all landing like birds into the same tree and thrilling there some minutes at dusk

Dot dot dot

No more birds.

ISBN:

9780393247794

0393247791

OCLC:

937452485