Format:
1 online resource (68 pages)
ISBN:
9781949944280
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- -Preface- -- The Crossing -- And then the silence. -- 29 Down, 14 Across -- Hanauma Bay -- Vigil -- The Dead Guys -- Thera -- All the Quiet Ruin in Gilbert's Poems -- Falling Giants -- In This House of Flesh and Bone -- Los Angeles -- Fear -- The Care Unit Softball Team -- How It Works -- Someone tells me that David Bowie has died. -- An Education -- Coconut Oil -- 1:41 -- In the Recovery Room -- The Sweetest Way to Drown -- Exit Interview with God -- Marriage -- Kissing -- The Evergreen World -- The Forgetting -- The Subconscious -- Paper Lanterns -- Saturdays -- -I- -- The Goodbye World Poem -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Recent Titles from Alice James Books.
Content:
"While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent "afterward" of someone's death. Losing his wife, his father, and his best friend in quick succession, Turner explores those relationships through the complicated lenses of moments in time, weaving in and out of memory to explore the disparate history that fuses together to form ones psyche. Throughout the collection, a prevailing motion recurs: that of submersion, sinking, plunging into the deep--whether it be the ocean or the subconscious. In other words, this book is a kind of poetic biography, a journey of the self that ultimately pours everything that's happened in a life--all of the love and all of the loss--into the moment of death itself. The poems are meant to be celebratory and sublime in their comprehension of what happens to our memories when we die. And, if the reader is inclined--the reader becomes the vessel who holds all of this in their own imagination, carrying Turner and his memories forward into their own lives in a small way"--
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Language:
English
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