Author

Publication

2016 - Saturnalia Books, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

18,750 words, Guess

Page Count

75 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC811.6
  • LCCPS3626.U88 A6 2016
  • LCCPS3626.U94 A6 2016

Description

Heat Wake the phrase could designate the heat of the just-deceased animal, the warmed seat, the legacy of the anthropocene, the Fata Morgana that swirls and ripples sightlines. Heat Wake the book swirls with tactility, biology, evolution, and desire: hands reach, grab, feel, and are held as the poems percolate with quick sonic link and variation. The poems unfold amid the presence of stubborn rocks, ocean, suburban New Jersey, all approached at a queer angle. Time itself fluctuates within the poems and is central to their unfolding through the limited time of humans versus time cinematic, evolutionary, geological, and cosmic. Propelled by rollicking, playful language and quick-as-a-strobe-light metaphor, the reader travels through desire and its vicissitudes, through yearning and touch and the shaping of the future, from two boys stumbling toward each other in the darkness of a college dormitory to a bed in the depths of the sea, from the taciturn Arizona desert to giant sloths on Mars.

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Other Editions

  • Heat wakeSaturnalia Books2016-01-01

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