Full Description
"Devin Becker's Shame | Shame is a brilliant debut collection. Here, the prose poem has been re-imagined as a cinematic vignette, yet rooted as deeply in the American Northwest as anything in Richard Hugo and David Lynch. Raw, intimate, and elliptical in its metaphysics, Devin Becker's poetry captures an idiomatic recklessness while navigating those angular narratives of our contemporary lives." --David St. John Devin Becker grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and lives in Moscow, Idaho, where he works as digital initiatives librarian at the University of Idaho Library. He was named a 2014 "Mover and Shaker" by Library Journal.
Contents
Table of Contents:
Western 2
Smoothie Joint 3
Tennis Courts 4
Tobacco Outlet 5
Backyard 6
Restaurant 7
Kitchen 8
Data 9
Auditorium 10
Breakfast Bar 11
Business School 12
Living Room 13
New Year's Eve Day 14
Corner Club 15
Butte 16
Sangria 17
Atlantic City 18
The Internet 19
Apartment 20
Conference 21
Indianapolis 22
Kristin 23
Wedding 24
Nook 26
Plot 27
Water Fountain 28
Parking Lot 30
Window 31
Northern Hemisphere 33
What Leave I Offer 34
Sad, Outside, Winter 35
Did We Learn Anxiety from Each Other? 37
Sleeping Next to a Lion 38
The New Poetry 39
Cosmology 40
Episode 1 - Pilot 43
Shower 44
Honeymoon 45
Mirror-Stage 46
The Church Floor 47
Data (II) 48
Self-Portrait 49
Least 50
His Boats 51
Back from the Dead Awhile 52
Ex Nihilo 53
