Masses on radar / David O'Meara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Meara, David, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle age--Poetry.

Middle age.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane. Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David O'Meara, standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations, inviting re-evaluation of past goals, confronting personal loss, and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar, indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching, and in the center of the radar is the lyric 'I' sweeping its adjacent experience. Poems like "I Carry a Mouse to the Park Beside the Highway," "I Keep One Eye Open and One Eye Closed," and "I Sleep as the Volcano Ash Falls like Snow," usher the reader through thematic corridors of memory, fracture, and recovery. Embracing uncertainty and incorporating seasonal forecasts, humour, trivia, satire, politics, the environment, loss, and the mundane, these poems are a detection system signaling a paradox of meanings."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1

I Invite Bad Luck and Ruin

I Carry a Mouse to the Park Beside the Highway

Distant

Ahead

I Surf the Sodium Light

Puzzle

Vigour

Everything

I Don't Want the Cat to Be Afraid

I Replace Korotki at the Weather Station on the Barents Sea

I Collect the Five Thousand Ribs of Jesus Christ

2

The Moirai

3

Workroom

I Walk Dripping From a Sea Journey on the Highway Across America in Tears to the Door of Your Cottage in the Western Night

Orbit

Yearbook

I Arrive Too Late So Watch the Footage Over From the Beginning

View

Whir

I Eat the Luscious Palm Dates Near Aqaba

Decade

Raw

Album

I Swim the Same Waters that the Greek Army Once Crossed

4

Sink

Horizon

Otherwise

I Park the Car and Climb Three Flights of Stairs

I Keep One Eye Open and One Eye Closed

Der irische Dichter Matthew Sweeney ist tot

Away

Days

I Sleep as the Volcano Ash Falls Like Snow

Lisbon

I Travel

I Sell Cheap Flowers by the Roadside.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version: O'Meara, David, 1968- Masses on radar.

ISBN:

9781552454268

1552454266

OCLC:

1240575847

Publisher Number:

99989053787