Fear of Description by Poppick, Daniel

Fear of Description (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143134381)

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Fear of Description by Poppick, Daniel

Fear of Description

$20.00
Fear of Description by Poppick, Daniel

Fear of Description

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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From Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments, narrative poems that find millennials adrift--in political upheaval and personal crisis--and trying to find their way back to one another

Winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy

These poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals, precariously (or just un-) employed, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet's future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship, artifice and technology, writing and ritual, hauntings and obsessions--searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.

Author: Daniel Poppick
ISBN-10: 0143134388
ISBN-13: 9780143134381
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/15/2019
By Daniel Poppick
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Daniel Poppick's first book of poetry, The Police, was published by Omnidawn in 2017. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Granta, The New Republic, Fence, the PEN Poetry Series, and other journals. The recipient of awards from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Coe College, and the Parsons School of Design. He currently lives in Brooklyn, where he works as a copywriter and coedits the Catenary Press.

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