Description
From rough optimism to sharp criticism, fifty American poets present new work dissecting the current political climate in America. Wide-ranging writers bring their bold voices to this collection, including Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, Rebecca Wolff, Terrance Hayes, Joe Wenderoth, and Tao Lin. "Walking by Hope Street" Look at the landscape, A lot of damage, no? But we are here together, And of needing me, here The world needs me, We are too alone. And what of our orange daylight, Growing darker as the lamplit Trees grow dark. There Is not enough to say. But our hands, our gentle Frozen hands sift through Things like numbers out of breath. It will all be okay, I promise. Promise who? Promise the faded land. -Noelle Kocot "Literary Agency" Coretta Scott King has died, the other day. Dream unrealized. Lost and found, lost again, bathos my motivation my Elysian dream. The place inside untutored, incorruptible, without relation. That's something to hold onto, and uncontingency dressing the wound. That's sad and just "what it is." It is what it is. That's what I say when I can't bear the news. -Rebecca Wolff
Advance review copy mailing to more than 60 major media outlets and over 150 political, literary and poetry publications A unique website will be created just for promoting State of the Union to an Internet audience
About the Author
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His previous books include Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu.
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517339
Author Joshua Beckman
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 147mm * 10mm
Advance review copy mailing to more than 60 major media outlets and over 150 political, literary and poetry publications A unique website will be created just for promoting State of the Union to an Internet audience
About the Author
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His previous books include Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu.
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517339
Author Joshua Beckman
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 147mm * 10mm
