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Nightjar 9781933974439 by SIMMs, Michael
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- ISBN
- 9781933974439
- Book Title
- Nightjar
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Ragged Sky Press
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Poetry, Literary Collections
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 6.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 116 Pages
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In this richly imagined collection of poems, Michael Simms draws inspiration from history, psychology, biology, and astronomy, yet at heart he is simply a man with stories to tell. A poet returns home from the funeral of his parents to find that the language of grief is inadequate to describe his complicated relationship with his father, so he invents new words to describe his feelings. An autistic boy on a family vacation to Carlsbad Caverns descends deep into the earth, and breathing the darkness, he becomes a bat. A high school performance of Euripides's The Trojan Women becomes a terrifying prediction of what will happen to one of the girls after graduation. A conversation between two old men about Schubert's Death and the Maiden recalls accusations of sexual harassment one of the friends faces. And in a humorous ars poetica, Simms dreams of kidnapping Charles Bukowski and spiriting him to an AA meeting where Buk slings insults, jumps out the window and flies to the nearest bar on black wings, leading Simms to realize that American poetry needs its misfits and outlaws, and in fact, he prefers poems with a little dirt on them. Simms is a poet who writes as easily about the microfauna in a compost bin as about the complexities of love. He explains the hermeneutics of suspicion as adroitly as a visit to a dog park. He describes an old couple at the seashore through the eyes of an artist drawing them and the climate crises from the perspective of a bronze age king watching his city crumble. Gifted, smart, and flawed, frank about his alcoholism and other personal failings, Simms gives us poems that twist and turn and yet always remain clear in their intent. His empathy is all-embracing, and he challenges the reader's expectations by elegantly expressing abstract ideas through wildly creative, wholly original imagery. These poems keep returning to their central concern of how love can endure in a world that is collapsing. In language both musical and vernacular, Michael Simms stretches the limits of poetic autobiography until personal anecdote rises to the level of timeless myth.
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Publisher
Ragged Sky Press
ISBN-10
1933974435
ISBN-13
9781933974439
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11057263883
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nightjar
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
116 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
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Ps3569.I479n54 2021
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2021-944834
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