The milk hours / poems by John James.

Author
James, John (Poet) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
Description
71 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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    "We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Awards
    Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
    ISBN
    • 9781571315083 ((pbk. : alk. paper))
    • 157131508X ((pbk. : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2019001447
    OCLC
    1080274786
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