Notes from the passenger / Gillian Conoley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conoley, Gillian, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Nightboat Books, [2023]

Summary:

Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication. From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Conoley, Notes from the Passenger reminds us how with increased gun violence, war, plague, white supremacy, we are no longer "in control." We are no longer drivers; we are passengers--destination unknown. Arriving like missives from a bardic journey, these poems explore how system collapse has led to a new space-time continuum. As our perception/projection of world shifts in the quotidian contemporary and historical--even ancient--time, these cinematic linguistically vibrant poems seek new order beyond division, within catastrophe and joy, written on the edge of being.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

I.

The Passenger

The Messenger

How it was no longer only the country that was divided

Bodies I lie down with in bright grass

White Spruce

The Blue Hand

II. how to have a future memory

how to have a future memory

all the dead arrive in skeins

A metropole that unpeoples and peoples

Three Red Plastic Cups

III. Saint Perpetua

Perpetua's diary

IV.

When Lie Goes Live

I loved, I voted

The White House

In the next night

In the Next Next World

I feel a tenant in the barely daylight

End Notes

V. "the possibility of joy in the face of death"

"the possibility of joy in the face of death" I

"the possibility of joy in the face of death" II

"the possibility of joy in the face of death" III

"the possibility of joy in the face of death" IV

VI.

Thank You for the Afterlight

Planet Nexii

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Conoley, Gillian Notes from the Passenger

ISBN:

9781643621821

OCLC:

1378935081