Everything / Andrea Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Andrea, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

119 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tribeca, [New York, New York] : Four Way Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Clever, capricious poems grounded in the very matter of life: loving, losing, and persisting Andrea Cohen's Everything approaches the idea of the macro through an elastic inquiry of the micro. In a poem entitled "Dust," the speaker posits " We funnel it between the stones./ What stones become is what/ holds them together." The collection examines logic through analogy; for example, if everything is formed of anything, then isn't absence a product of abundance? In poems that follow their own line of questioning wherever it may lead-to destinations that are often unexpected and always rich with discovery-Cohen explores love, grief, and alternate endings. The worlds she creates in the poems expand, contract, change shape, and change course. On the subject of waiting, Cohen writes, "...someone kept/ punching a vending/ machine, as if another / hour might come out," and in the pliant universe of this collection, time might as well be vended or dispensed in an unexpected way. These poems ask us to remain open and to circumvent ordinary answers on the route toward extraordinary, nuanced ones"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Wrecking Ball

Desert Isle

Everything

Le Danton

After

Half Measures

Craft Talk

Fellow Traveler

Right as Rain

Epicenter

Ring

Self Portrait with Eraser

No One

The Bars Insist

Bootstraps

Bruise

Weep Holes

Too Long

Rail

Dust

Openings

Shiva

II. No Moon, But

Alchemy

Bees

Gaucin

Another Gift

Domestic

Announcement

Tattoo

Stretch

Registry

Allee

Magician

Love

Even

Three Rivers

One-Two

Rabbit Hole

Pain and Suffering

Advert

Gift

First Love

Dusk

Chair

Rooms

Pebble

Mirror

Transatlantic

The Last Word

Matinee

Playing Field

Bridge

Seaside

Punctuated

With

With Us

Forced

December, Brightening

Orchard

III. Gratitude

In the Car with the Theoretical Physicist

Shadowboxer's Complaint

Instrumental

Naming

How Everything

What Would Have Been His Nineteenth Birthday

Stop-Time

Hymnals and Revivals

Salad Days

Home

Horizon

Ubi

Eleven

Crystal Ball

Wind 101

The Blue Chair

Tool Shed

IV. Either/Or

BombShelter

17th Century German Cobbler

Guide to Becoming a Human Shield

Bible Study

The Thing You

Safety Glasses

Before the Headlines

Protocol

Bearer

Peacekeepers

Witness

Another Mirror

Tragic News

Diaspora

After the End

Swing State

Beating a Dead Horse

No Man's Land

New Year.

ISBN:

9781945588686

1945588683

OCLC:

1191457223

Publisher Number:

99986909208