Runaway
Description
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham
In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present-a now-in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, "counting silently towards infinity." Graham's essential voice guides us fluently "as we pass here now into the next-on world," what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us "to the last be human."
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Publisher's Note
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I
- ALL
- TREE
- I'M READING YOUR MIND
- MY SKIN IS
- WHEN OVERFULL OF PAIN I
- OVERHEARD IN THE HERD
- II
- [TO] THE LAST [BE] HUMAN
- FROM THE TRANSIENCE
- PRAYER FOUND UNDER FLOORBOARD
- CARNATION/RE-IN
- BECOMING OTHER
- THAW
- EXCHANGE
- III
- SAM'S DREAM
- SAM'S STANDING
- WHEREAS I HAD NOT YET IN THIS LIFE SEEN
- RAIL
- I WON'T LIVE LONG
- SCARCELY THERE
- UN-
- IV
- THE HIDDENNESS OF THE WORLD
- RUNAWAY
- IT CANNOT BE
- WHOM ARE YOU
- SIRI U
- IN THE NEST®
- THE WAKE OFF THE FERRY
- POEM
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by Jorie Graham
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
