Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.
The riveting poems of Ember Days begin with ritual and end with prayer as they tunnel through Wednesday's jammed boulevards, Friday's cash worthless, Saturday's prodigal feet. Plant disease incurable as colonialism inhabits nature's solace; funds for libraries disappear, abandoned houses compel secrets. Woolf's pen runs dry, Tesla holes up, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo. Soldiers in Baghdad, models transformed to artists, descendants of forced immigrants, survivors of hurricanes, witnesses for peace-these and other intercessory voices step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships.
Table of Contents:
Offering the Body: The Tibetan Practice of Chöd
WEDNESDAY's jammed boulevards
Infinitives
For When Nothing Is Remembered
This Is Buff, Shuffling
Outside The Tunnel Snow Is Melting
Excuse Me Hello Good Morning Good Night
Up With People
Kitchen Theater
As Though Finny Folk Would Flip
Slipping An Opinion Out Of Them Is Easy
All Those Creases
From The Window Of The Public Library
The Old Man Brought Home
National Insecurity
If God Were To Die
Feeding In Flight To Keep Hovering
Stealing Across The Silver
The Boss's Operation
There Is No Known Remedy For Scale
Is a transcendently beautiful place not to be ours?
Blossoms Burst Every-which Color
FRIDAY's cash worthless
Perhaps I Left The Car At Big Lots
Pat Euphoria
I Am The Blond You Wanted
Dry Dock
Compared To What Was Is Is Beautiful
1961 Springfield Ave
To The Darkhouse
The Great Bear in Winter
Tesla On A Leash
Irish Eye
Miracle Miles
Base of Parnassus
Pitch
Earthly Mishaps
SATURDAY's prodigal feet
Able
Continent Not Country
Desert Storm
Occupied
Not Yet Eager To Step Back From Public Life
Floats To The Sky
Turning In To The Windswept Garden
Tribe
For The Record
Traffic
Miracles When They Are Needed
The Entire Table Lifted Spoons
Crows Without A Bardo
Lincoln In Another Bardo
Swarming
Newbie
A Brush With Contumacy
Ember Days
Taken
A— uses more ordnance in a single campaign than
B— used in epochs of imperial rule
