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Equi’s poems insist that despite the fact that most of our everyday reality has been rendered accountable and computable, there is still a region of experience that escapes our GPS-mapped consciousness—an intangible realm where poetry is still possible.
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Synthesizing twenty years of influencess, Equi constructs a collage of voices--undoubtedly American, exquisitely her own.
"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From beloved poet Elaine Equi comes her latest collection of playful, surreal poetry. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The New York Times), Equi's subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange divisions of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.
Equi's innovative poems whimsically explore the effects of technology on everyday life.
Clear yet complex, these poems animate the things closest to us--objects, fantasies, culture high and low.
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The subjects range from Rilke to UFOs, to cooking shows on television. In Art about Fear she writes: "Be careful with that book. / It's not a book. It's a person / and it changes." By the author of Surface Tension.
Collects poems from over two decades of the Illinois-born author's work.