In Parachutes Descending
Poems
Published on 9. January 2024
110 pages
978-0-8229-9026-0 (ISBN)
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In Parachutes Descending follows the speaker's decision to leave her Bostonian husband for Jane, a San Franciscan artist, while charting the sensual consequences of our bodily entanglements. These poems capture personal desires fermenting among current earthly cataclysms, including climate change and global capitalism. In doing so, this collection asks us to think inclusively about the ways we become with all humans and nonhumans, all of us-past, present, and future-intimately entwined with others.
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Tana Jean Welch is the author of Latest Volcano, winner of the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, the Colorado Review, and other national literary journals. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she currently lives in Tallahassee where she is associate professor of medical humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Boston Under Water by 2100
- *
- Sleeping with Jane
- First Winter in Boston
- Seasteading: The Final Frontier
- Still Life / Turning Life
- The History of the Escalator
- Seasteading: Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- Origin Story (with Frank O'Hara)
- Frank O'Hara Is Trending
- *
- Letter to Those Who Wanted Me
- The History of Humanity
- Love (& the Husband Left Behind)
- Sleeping with Jane
- In Which I Imagine My Husband Interviewed by Barbara Walters
- Highway 99: Jane Visits My Valley
- At Sixteen I Was Twelve
- Seasteading: Recruiting
- Jane Complains
- De humani corporis fabrica
- Alone but Not Alone
- *
- Every Brittle Star
- *
- October Renga
- Jane at Twelve
- The Real Nightmare
- Seasteading: Ephemerisle
- No One Should Feel That Alone
- Mission District Mural #63: ¡Viva La Tamale Lady!
- Expect Any Answer
- "Jesus Died on the Cross Because He Forgot His Safe Word"
- *
- Seasteading: Manifest Destiny
- Heat Signature
- The History of Suicide
- Why Jane Was but Wasn't Real
- Eventually Erosion
- Not This Boston
- The Immortal Jellyfish
- The Immortal Jellyfish II
- Masquerade
- *
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
