The Milk Hours
Poems
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery. So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transform…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-57131-724-7
- EAN: 9781571317247
- Produktnummer: 31769634
- Verlag: Milkweed Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'628 KB
Über den Autor
John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Quarterly West, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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