Soft Apocalypse
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-6369-1 (ISBN)
Soft Apocalypse pirouettes in the "anemic glow" of late capitalism, its lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going and going on. Chrome angels, strange beloveds, and cool-eyed speakers cut speculative lines through precarious spaces of the present—deserts and nightscapes, neon-lit strips, corner stores, foreclosures, pharmacy queues, and "crumpled back alleys"—making imaginative economies, queer kinships, and alternative ways of being in the world. Nothing here is done with ease, but irreducible gifts do slip surreptitiously from palm to palm: after all, "we all need a little help sometimes / baby." Anybody in these poems may use ordinary, embodied matters—"raw materials" and "dream residuals"—to shimmy out of dire, official measures and into "an unmarked rest," an excess, or any "o vacancy!" where unofficial exchanges may be made.
Soft Apocalypse insistently edges these minor events and intimate apprehensions against the official orders, projections, violations, and isolations of our time. Instead of calculating toward a dystopic ending, this book bets on its softer wrecks, a futurity in an intimately rewired collective.
Leah Nieboer grew up in Iowa. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Denver, a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry, and the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Poetry Daily, Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Ghost Proposal, and other publications. She lives in Denver and is at work on her first novel. Andrew Zawacki is coeditor of the international journal Verse, a reviewer for the Boston Review and the Times Literary Supplement, and an editor of the anthology Afterwards: Slovenian Writing, 1945-1995. A former Rhodes and Fulbright scholar, he studies in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Georgia Poetry Prize Series |
Verlagsort | Georgia |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
ISBN-10 | 0-8203-6369-3 / 0820363693 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-6369-1 / 9780820363691 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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