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When the Earth Flies Into the Sun

Contributor(s): Mong, Derek (Author)

ISBN: 9781947817722

Publisher: Saturnalia Books

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Pub Date: October 15, 2024

Dewey: 811.6

LCCN: 2024935289

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.30" H x 7.30" L x 5.30" W ( 0.26 lbs) 82 pages

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Poetry | American

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Description: "When the Earth Flies into the Sun weighs digitalization and ecological disasters against the joys of domesticity. Poems speak back to mass shooters and in the voice of cloud storage. They leap from Greek ruins to intergalactic finales, Nebraskan highways to Paleolithic Hominins first learning to speak. At the book's center are two long poems, "Midnight Arrhythmia" and "A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud," that ground these concerns--for art, the other, and the earth--in bodies. The former, addressed to the poet's son, is part lullaby and part letter. It tries, like a will, to quantify what we leave behind. The latter, addressed to a painter, considers Caesarian birth, ekphrasis, and the casualties of parenting, for both Freud and the poet himself"--

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