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This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems
Juliana Spahr
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Paperback. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138. Poems. Series: New California Poetry. 86 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 7. Weight: 124.
Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace - from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again - touching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between ... Read more
Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace - from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again - touching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
86
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
New California Poetry
Condition
New
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242951
SKU
V9780520242951
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About Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr is a poet, critic, and editor. Among her books of poems are Fuck You--Aloha--I Love You and Response, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She coedits the international arts journal Chain with Jena Osman.
Reviews for This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems
Spahr's sprawling paean to humankind is by turns spiritual and political, philosophical and practical. Few books attempt this sort of range, and fewer still succeed as dramatically as does this one... Those who worry that contemporary poetry has lowered its sights from the peaks of previous epochs-opting for form and technique over the grandeur of the human imagination-can read this ... Read more