My daily actions, or the meteorites / S. Brook Corfman ; [foreword by Cathy Park Hong].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corfman, S. Brook, author.

Contributor:

Hong, Cathy Park, writer of foreword.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Poets out loud

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

70 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.

Summary:

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting -- that the "ordinary" would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isn't yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world. The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice ("journaling") meets the associative power of the poem.--Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 69) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780823289493

0823289494

OCLC:

1138673763

Publisher Number:

99985501676