Exit opera : poems / Kim Addonizio

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Addonizio, Kim, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

110 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Summary:

"Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from a ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject--jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers--these poems make for a compelling mix of humor and pain, difficulty and solace."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

Exit opera

I. Existential voyage

20.5 Light years from earth

Some of the questions to consider

My opera

Games people play

Self-portrait as a goldfish trapped in a toilet

Insomnia song

Swoon

Getting to know you

In Assisi

In the afterlife

Oracle at Delphi

Self-portrait with a statue of Fernando Pessoa

According to the Buddhists

This too shall pass

Jump in the river and drown

Kansas, four A.M.

II. Beatitude

Blues on Avenue C

Compassion problem

Traces

Another spring

Bad motel

Upstate

Tidal

Paris

Unleaving

Solace

Night out

III. Existential elegy

Jazz in 20/20

Eschatology

Divination

Self-portrait with heavy rain

Cracked logic

Vanishing point

Therefore I am nothing

Predator report

I believe this way of life is ending, I said

Journey to the end of season one of American Horror Story

Ode to England

Transfer of power

Ohio

The distance

Dark and getting darker

Aria Di Sorbetto

By way of a reminder.

ISBN:

1324078936

9781324078937

OCLC:

1418888192