The Declarable Future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299292140)

The poems in this book inhabit a world uneasily familiar and promising, but from the distance of a few possibilities into the future. In this collection of sharp, hallucinatory, and often darkly humorous poems, a lost man wanders among the towns of people who can't remember what they named the children, how to find each other's porches, or whether their buildings are still intact. That's why they need the person with the loupe. Among the poems where doorknobs emit the daily news, stone angels fall from the sky, and the floating world's harvest is whatever swims too close, the person with the loupe steadfastly verifies only what can be measured, while the lost man is witness to the unquantifiable and the limitless. And throughout, precise and observant language leads us expertly into the gorgeous, precarious wilderness of The Declarable Future.

Finalist, Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, Oregon Book Awards

Author: Jennifer Boyden
ISBN-10: 0299292142
ISBN-13: 9780299292140
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2013
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist