Instead of Dying (Colorado Prize for Poetry)
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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
188563563X
ISBN 13
9781885635631
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
86
Subject
Death- Poetry, Grief- Poetry
Description
Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief. In the spirit of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, these poems compulsively imagine alternate realities for a lost sibling (“Instead of dying, they inject you with sunlight & you live” or “Instead of dying, you join a dog-sledding team in Quebec”), relentlessly recording the unlived possibilities that blossom from the purgative magical thinking of mourning. Whether she is channeling Google Maps Street View to visit a scene of murder (“Because / a picture of this place is / also a picture of you”) or investigating the origins of consciousness (“Yes, alien / life-forms exist / they are your thoughts”), Haldeman wrenches verse into new sublime forms, attempting to both translate the human experience as well as encrypt it, inviting readers into realms where we hover, plunge, rise again, and ascend. -- from publisher's website.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Iowa City Poetry Lending Library | 82 | 1 | Yes |