Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift "billowing, unattached," and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon's head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves. Ungainly piano notes pour from a window and wake unexpected wonder in a lost walker. A forest grows inside a box that once held a father's new pair of shoes. Skylab slips from its watchful orbit and careens toward Earth. A familiar chair once owned by a now absent family appears in a field of wild parsnips. Meditative and richly imaginative, these poems cast and recast the self and its relation to other selves, and to memory, history, power, and the natural world.
| ISBN: | 9780822967156 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2024 |
| Author: | Corey Marks |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |