Full Description
"You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it's a familiar pop cultural fun house—then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you're actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and bitter fun."
—Mary GaitskillThoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life, from the 1970s to the 1990s Democrats, through the collapse of the news industry, to the burlesque Trump era.
Contents
I.
Sakhalin
In Ballard
Thoughts and Prayers
Late Capitalism
Ventura
Clinic ( Jody Rogac, untitled photo of Southern clinic)
II.
Apocalypse Anyway
Pass
Pre-Natal
Coterie
Against Amnesia (Peter Hujar, "Christopher Street Pier #2 (Crossed Legs)")
Outrageous
Ms. Things
Fever
Alphabetical America
Mammo
III.
MRI
The Harasser's Apology
Enclave
Wedding Poem
23andMe
Cancel This
Alma Mater
The Cloud
Summer Haven
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bio
