Full Description
In a world where everything has more possible explanations than ever before, where no experience seems real unless it is refracted, this book examines love, loss, and time itself under a variety of lenses: these poems are made from other poems, from paintings, from songs, from spam emails, snapshots, jokes, dreams. We are the experts on our own existence, but what does it all mean?
Katy Evans-Bush has been praised for situating poetry in the heart of daily life, and her second collection is written in deep engagement with the sounds and colours of real and imaginative worlds. The French writer Nerval's pet lobster takes us on a vibrant summer's outing in nineteenth century Paris. Two playwrights in two centuries ponder happily on their unseen downfalls. A child dithers on a hot day, and a lover resorts to pure tactile expression at the moment it means the most.
A sharply-lit American childhood is seen as if through a telescope, from amid the mists of London and its layered lives. Ordinary objects act of their own accord; art speaks to us more than the person standing beside us; and the core of love remains the same while everything around it shapeshifts. One thing is certain, though: an egg is never just an egg.
Contents
Contents
Talk
Thibault's Ribbon
Speculation and Conjecture
The Grand Disjuncture
My Hero
Steam Across the Quad, Baby!
dear m magritte
O Let Me Not
1599: He Looketh Happily Across the Thames by Bankside
Fretwork
The Love Ditty of an 'eartsick Pirate
In Which the Playwright Reflects on the Nature of His Existence
Hope Like Heaven: a Shaggy God Story
Hell
Radio Silence
It's a Right Birds' Nest
The Night is Dark
& outside by the stream the colours were so amazing
Richard Price
The Fabiola
You're in Bedlam
Meditations on a Freudian's Lip
After the Gasometers
The Starvefish
Billy and the Days
Intelligent Album Rock
Forth in July
The Desiring of Practically Everything
Overland Homesick Blues
Connecticut Postcard
The Desert
Freefall
What's Time
And Across the Harbour a Solitary Skiff
Animate
Hansel
A Christmas Play
The Mountain Goat and the Mermaid
The Base Macian
A Few Squibs
Bisects
The Best Scarf in London: a Picaresque
Henry in Love
Spring in Baker Street
This Was the Pace of my Heartbeat
Away
On a Note by Louise Bourgeois
November 30, 1900
Hammershøi
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