Full Description
Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin's elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted. Irwin's poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful.
Excerpt from "Letter"
Times when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud
just as when we touch a body or door, or think
of the dead come back, romancing
us through the warp of memory, lighting a way
by luring . . .
Contents
Contents
I. Go
Goes
Vertigo
Balloon
The Dead
Light
Letter
Alive
Couple
Blue, Red
Notre-Dame of Paris, 2019
Story
Livestream
Tree, River
Hover
The Life
II. Home
Was into Space
Holiday
Edges
Joyful Orphan
Ash
The smaller house
Arrival
How long?
Library of Water
3D
Family
Why—
We
Faces
Hungry
Radiance
Wilderness
Bright in June Sun
III. Wild
Nike of Samothrace
Legend
All the tiny arrows
Just once
Gift
Livestream
English
Plaster of Paris
Spring, 2020
Nearer
Variation on a Phrase by Dickinson
Trailer for a Movie not yet Made
1937 Indian Head Nickel
La liberté libre
Thirst
Pinprick
Three Panels
Yet
Refrain
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
