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a Year & other poems
About This Book
From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. Jos Charles's poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. "A scandal / three cartons red / in a hedge / in / each the thousand eye research of flies." With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastationâCalifornia wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurityâamid illusions of safety. "I wanted to believe, " Charles declares, "a corner a print leaned to / a corner can save / a people." Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough.Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seekâpropelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentumâsomething better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one's life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. "A current / gives as much as it has, " writes Charlesâdespite fire, despite loss.Harrowing and gorgeous, a Year & other poems is an astonishing new collection from a poet of "unusual beauty and lyricism" ( New Yorker ).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Like You
- I Climbed To See
- Where
- A Year
- A Note on language
- A New York Poem
- A Fantasy
- A Song
- A Lyric
- A Note on form
- Acknowledgments