Blessing the Exoskeleton
Poems
Erschienen am 15. November 2022
97 Seiten
978-0-8229-8962-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author's father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the author's apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate.
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11/2022
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His poems have appeared in various magazines including The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He currently lives in Thornton, Colorado.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Of Corridors
- 1
- Driving Theory
- Phoenix Theory
- In Remembrance
- Angels
- Coming-of-Age Story
- Clothing Theory
- Telemarketer Theory
- Cadaver Theory
- The Spirit
- Cocktail Theory
- Broken Season
- 2
- The Warmth of Toilet Seats in Public Restrooms
- Childhood Theory
- Theory Written in the Dust Inside a Secondhand Guitar
- Film Criticism in the Age of the AR-15
- Glory Hole
- November Theory
- Alcohol Theory
- The Smoking Gun
- Signs and Wonders
- Reliquary
- Accidental Prayer
- Angels
- Crawdad Theory
- 3
- Kalamazoo
- The Owl Catcher's Son
- Postal Theory
- Angels
- Upper Peninsula
- Light Theory
- Future Theory
- World without End
- Midwestern Gulls
- Freezing Fog
- Cathedral Theory
- Glitter Ode
- Oranges in Michigan
- Acknowledgments
