Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3729-3 (ISBN)
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief.
“I will try,” he admits, “to be better than myself, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.
Jared Harél is the author of Go Because I Love You. He has been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review and the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, the Southern Review, and The Sun. Harél teaches writing, plays drums, and lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and two children.
Source Acknowledgments
I.
Sad Rollercoaster
All I’ve Ever Wanted
The Sweet Spot
Overnight
Beer Run
Swim Lessons
The Perimeter
Plastic Butterflies
Takeaways
Elegy for Recycled Encyclopedias
A Moving Grove
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
II.
Good Star
Starfish
As Plagues Go
Achilles
Hold
Along the Path to Washington Irving’s House
Water Damage
A Childhood of Nannies
Excavations in Salemi, Sicily
The Great American Eclipse
Self-Portrait as Nature Preserve
Tefillin
My Stupid Pride
III.
Behind the Painted Guardrail
My Grandfather Dreams I Am Dead
Engaged
Cordoba
On Suffering
Every Time I Think My Life Is Hard, There’s Someone in the Sky Reminding Me to Zip It
Our Wedding
Too Soon in San Antonio
Having a Third
Survival Mode
The Secular among Us
If I Never Find God
Final Kindness
IV.
Portrait of a Heron
Birthday
Primal
You Want It Darker (2016)
January 20, 2021
Spring Crush
Slow Dance
The Other Side of Desire
Spring
Ruins
Kin
Dolls Can’t Talk
Notes
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3729-3 / 1496237293 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3729-3 / 9781496237293 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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