Shifting baseline syndrome / Aaron Kreuter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreuter, Aaron, author.

Series:

Oskana poetry & poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--Poetry.

Social problems.

Environmental degradation--Poetry.

Environmental degradation.

Poetry.

Poetry as Topic.

poetry.

Medical Subjects:

Poetry as Topic.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

74 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. In Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip in a porta potty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of television? Throughout Kreuter's sophomore collection, the TV remote is never far. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As the end looms, Kreuter demonstrates why we'll keep doing what we've always done: hoping, for once, that the series finale will be good."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Like Humidity

Discarded Novel Openings

Cousinage: A Meet Cute

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Spoilers

Rivers I

A Day in the Life of a High Complexity Burn Boss

Icelandic for Not Another Poem about Iceland

This Meeting of the Westeros Environmental Alliance Is Called to Order

Meanwhile

Bonetown

Acid Trip in a Porta-potty

Sure-Fire Signs Your Loved One Is a Smartphone User

Capitalism Gets an Origin Story

Maps

II. Just Another Name for Anthropocene

Rivers 11

The Professor of Ontology

Language Is a Virus from Outer Space

The Last Six Minutes of the Nature Documentary, Where David Attenborough Tells Us the Beautiful Animals We've Just Been Watching Are Going Extinct, and It's All Our Fault

Get Away from Me, Television

Eighteen Ways of Looking at Magneto Destroying Auschwitz in X-Men: Apocalypse

@Herzl1860

Off-Screen

Catastrophists Anonymous

South Florida

My Father Philosophizes about the Ocean to Steph's Aunt and Uncle, Who We Just Ran Into at the Cheesecake Factory and Who, After Telling Us about Their Post-Breast-Reduction Sex Life Using Quite Graphic Language, Mentioned They Never Go to the Beach, even though Here We Are, in Florida

III. The Last River

Cote Saint-Luc Road

Montreal

On Complicity

Black Walnut

To a Palestinian Cousin

Soaps

All We Care About Is the Series Finale but Series Finales Are Always Terrible So Why Do We Continue to Care You Know Why It Is Because We All So Badly Want Something to Believe In

Hydrophobia

Rivers ill

Everywhere Crimes

Dreams I Had the Week before My Grandmother Passed Away

Grandfather Suite

Final (e) Thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Kreuter, Aaron. Shifting baseline syndrome.

ISBN:

9780889778542

088977854X

OCLC:

1263286068