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The Declarable Future (Four Lakes Prize in Poetry)by Jennifer Boyden
Synopses & ReviewsSynopsis:The poems in this book inhabit a world uneasily familiar and promising, but from the distance of a few possibilities into the future. In this collection of sharp, hallucinatory, and often darkly humorous poems, a lost man wanders among the towns of people who can't remember what they named the children, how to find each other's porches, or whether their buildings are still intact. That's why they need the person with the loupe. Among the poems where doorknobs emit the daily news, stone angels fall from the sky, and the floating world's harvest is whatever swims too close, the person with the loupe steadfastly verifies only what can be measured, while the lost man is witness to the unquantifiable and the limitless. And throughout, precise and observant language leads us expertly into the gorgeous, precarious wilderness of The Declarable Future. About the AuthorJennifer Boyden’s first book, The Mouths of Grazing Things, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 2010. Her work has appeared in Folio, Orion, Gettysburg Review, and The Beloit Poetry Journal, among others. She is a recipient of a PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency and lives on the Oregon coast. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. You Might Have Mentioned How the Doorknobs Worked Small Gifts Are Thoughtful, but Require Acceptance of the World's Dismantlement Night Pitch The Giant The Misunderstanding of Wool For the Church Singers on Howard and Juniper They Have a Point The Lost Man Meets the Giant Each Answer Addresses the Previous Answer Like a Frequency, Like Looking Right at It The Body, Being Mostly Water The Declarable Future 2. David on the Phone The Book of Various Studies The Person with the Loupe It's Only a Little Like You May Have Heard About Linear On Which the Loupe Is Found Adequate Bad Advice The Lost Man Meets the Person with the Loupe At the Weapon Show As If I Hadn't Worn It Quite Enough, Time Tattoos My Arms and Face The Lost Man Thanks the Curtains 3. Which Particle the Particle 4. The Hearings In This Place, Which We Have Been The Lost Man Interprets a Code Counting the Dead The Lost Man with Dust The Lost Man Disagrees with the Clouds Out of Principle The Magician The Person with the Loupe Confirms the Children Low Rent In the Hotel of Desire's Receipt Impossible to Know Which Ring the Ring of the Answer The Lost Man Leaves a WillWhat Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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