[New California Poetry 15] • This Connection of Everyone with Lungs

[New California Poetry 15] • This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
Authors
Spahr, Juliana
Publisher
University of California Press
Tags
poetry , contemporary
ISBN
9780520242906
Date
2005-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.34 MB
Lang
en
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Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of *This Connection of Everyone with Lungs *wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace —from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again—touching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between your sheets, under your skin.