The problem of the many / Timothy Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Timothy, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Wave books (Seattle, Wash.) ; 081.

Wave books ; 081

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

198 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Wave Books, [2019]

Summary:

If The Cloud Corporation is, as John Ashbery called it, "the poetry of the future, here, today," then Timothy Donnelly's third collection, The Problem of the Many, is the poetry of the future yet further pressed to the end of history. In astonishingly textured poems powerful and adroit in their negotiation of a seeming totality of human experience, Donnelly confronts--from a contemporary vantage--the clutter (and devastation) that civilization has left us with, enlisting agents as far flung as Prometheus, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jonah, NyQuil, and Alexander the Great.

Contents:

1

The Stars Down to Earth p. 7

Stunt p. 10

Prometheus p. 11

Gifted p. 14

All Through the War p. 15

The Endless p. 19

Apologies from the Ground Up p. 21

Unlimited Soup and Salad p. 25

Diet Mountain Dew p. 27

Solvitur Ambulando p. 32

Fascination p. 34

Malamute p. 38

The Problem of the Many p. 40

2

Arrows from the Sun p. 53

Smartwater p. 55

By Night with Torch and Spear p. 56

Cursum Perficio p. 59

Wasted p. 61

Shame p. 62

Nebuchadnezzar p. 64

A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches p. 67

Chemical Life p. 69

The Radiance of a Thousand Suns p. 72

All the Shrimp I Can Eat p. 74

Golden p. 75

Lunch in a Town Named After a Company Slowly Poisoning Its Residents p. 77

After Callimachus p. 78

3

The Earth Itself p. 97

Happiness p. 99

Hymn to Edmond Albius p. 101

Escape into Time p. 104

Traveler p. 106

Jonah p. 115

The Death of Print Culture p. 116

The Death of the Author p. 118

The Death of Truth p. 121

November Paraphrase p. 124

NyQuil p. 126

Leviathan p. 127

Mutual Life p. 128

4

Lycopodium Obscurum p. 135

Lapis Lazuli p. 138

Levitation p. 140

Some Comforts at the Expense of Others p. 143

Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake p. 145

Poem on a Stair p. 150

Poem Written with a Pinecone in My Hand p. 152

Poem Written with an Arrowhead in My Mouth p. 154

Flamin' Hot Cheetos p. 156

The Lighthouse of Alexandria p. 157

Roof p. 161

Burning Lichen from a Bronze Age Megalith p. 163

Insomnia p. 166

Hymn to Life p. 168.

Notes:

Poems

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781940696492

9781940696485

1940696488

1940696496

OCLC:

1088925031

Publisher Number:

99983179916

40029483681