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For the love of endings / Ben Purkert.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.U783 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purkert, Ben, author.
- Series:
- Stahlecker selections.
- Stahlecker selections
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 74 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Four Way Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- How does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert's debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poems examine "the gap / between the world & how / people paint it: dark, distant, there / for the taking." He makes us look at our disintegrating world head on and see what we've done to it, and what it has done to us.
- Contents:
- Today Is Work 3
- Self-Portrait As Infinite Smallness 4
- If I Shut My Eyes, What Other Doors in Me Fly Open 6
- Past Is the Present Only Colder 7
- Natural Intelligence 9
- Lake Is a Mind With a Shopping Cart in It 10
- Past Suffers Too 11
- Times the Whole World by Zero 12
- Nearly a Billion Wings 14
- Disassociated Self-Portrait From Ten Thousand Feet 15
- For the Love of Endings 16
- Dear Ex 31
- Like an Animal Cut Roughly in Half 33
- Passing Thoughts in a Couple 34
- Online Match 36
- In Hotels, Sex Flings Itself Open 37
- Running into the Ex 38
- Worlds I Failed to Be 40
- Tattoo of a Butterfly on a Butterfly 41
- Mirror I Don't Know 42
- Setting Bear Traps for Myself 43
- Salivating Over Nothing 44
- Running into the Ex Again 46
- More More 47
- Excape Plans 51
- Humility 56
- Blame Game 58
- Dark Planets We Could Realistically Flee To 59
- Driving a U-Haul in the Dream of Arrows 61
- Too Much 63
- Ideal World 64
- No Small Thing 65
- Before I Go 66
- How to Talk to the Moon 67
- No Other Way 69
- Remaining on Point 70
- Then 72
- In Zero Gravity 73.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781945588051
- 1945588055
- OCLC:
- 1001251055
- Publisher Number:
- 40028038373
- 99980297058
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