How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Egger, Lara.

Series:

Juniper Prize for Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 94 p..)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Wrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one's own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, image by image. Part confessional, part kitsch, and often self-deprecating, this debut collection offers an honest and tender exploration of love's necessary absurdity. Lara Egger asks: Who put the end in crescendo, the over in lover? Are metaphors always reliable witnesses? Why does the past sleep with us when we hope the person beside us is the future?"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Dead Reckoning p. 1

A New New Guide p. 2

The Igneous Hours p. 3

Driving Lessons p. 4

Eleven Days in Alicante p. 5

S.O.S. p. 7

Wanderlust p. 8

The One-Hit Wonders p. 9

If You're Anything like Me p. 10

A New New Guide to Heredity p. 11

Stille Nacht p. 12

Drunkest Etc. p. 13

At Washington Square Tavern p. 14

The Bridge between Us p. 15

Museum of the Heart p. 16

Another Version of My Confession p. 18

A New New Guide to Lunar Ambulation p. 19

Every Promise Eventually Sounds like an Apology p. 20

Boy George Is My Spirit Animal p. 21

The Pillow Book p. 23

Because I Am Stuck in My Own Syntax p. 25

The Lovemaking Habits of Icebergs p. 26

My Desire Is an Orchestra That Only Knows One Song p. 27

Kiss Me and You Will See How Important You Are p. 28

The Mondegreen p. 29

A New New Guide to Irony p. 30

The January of Having Everything p. 31

The Persuasion p. 32

The Accident p. 33

Sure, I Took the Pamphlet on Breaking Bad Habits p. 34

Charades p. 35

In Flagrante p. 36

A New New Guide to Root Vegetables p. 37

Mutual Disambiguation p. 38

In Our Garden of Eden p. 39

The Prophecy p. 40

Please Don't Leave Me Unattended p. 41

How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It p. 42

A New New Guide to Entropy p. 43

We All Get Turned Around p. 44

In My Wandering Circus of Desire p. 45

Vanishing Points of Arrival p. 46

Sanguine p. 47

Sweet Girl p. 48

A New New Guide to Self-Help p. 49

Weapons of Probable Destruction p. 50

Having Said That p. 51

Tell Me the One about the Marxist with a Horse Named Trotsky p. 52

Delivery by Mouth p. 54

The Flightless Birds p. 55

Because There's No Emoji for Memory p. 56

Appassionata Sonata & Other Works for Solo Piano p. 57

Death Mask p. 58

58 Don't Stay, Don't Go p. 59

A New New Guide to Husbandry p. 60

Whistling Dixie p. 61

Mixed Messages p. 62

Plasticity Theory p. 63

Bloom Box Ode p. 64

Poem Beginning with a Sentence by Dean Young p. 65

A New New Guide to Mobility p. 66

Souvenir p. 67

Coin-Toss Theories p. 68

All Such Intimacies p. 69

Poem in Defense p. 70

Know This p. 71

With These Wings p. 72.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

Juniper Prize for poetry

ISBN:

9781613768266

1613768265

OCLC:

1241447215