Debris / Jonathan Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Jonathan, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books, [2021]

Summary:

In Debris Jonathan Wells is concerned by the tension between the internal world of the lyric and an external world of violence and intrusion. Following this conflict through poems of rumination, imagination and increasing threat, the book resolves in a eulogy that is simple and touching. In one of the opening poems, "Notes from the Invasion", the speaker asserts, "The worst has happened. There is nothing/to imagine, ". The collection as a whole asks us to consider the questions: without imagination, what is left of the poem and the mind in a time of catastrophe? How are we to find peace? Experience love? Wells invites us to join him in the lyric's journey, to shelter in reading, and to travel in the imagination in order to protect the self from danger and risk without denial.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Pompeii

Notes from the Invasion

Living in the Poem

Clouds Are People Too!

How Did I Love Myself Again

Fandango

The Seventh Day

Taking off the Vest

Your Hat

Six Lives

Debris

Glass Table

Twenty Dollar Peach

Stay

Breathing into the Book: The Asiatics

Betrayal

Chelsea Bombing

The Thirteenth Labor

His First Moose

Ode to the Post Office

One Garden

Page One

Paramour

November 31

House of Houses

After the Volcano

Good Morning

Hudson River

I Catch Myself

The Wind Is Loose

Witness

My New Shoes

Zeno and the Beautiful Wall

Scaffolding

Between Víznar and Alfacar

Ice Dancing

April Morning

Inventory

Red Flag

Glorious

Notes

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.