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Book

Salvage

Call Number

  • 811 C54585 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2025]

Physical Description

vii, 85 pages ; 23 cm.

Summary

"Broadly, the poems are about what being unthrilled about "salvation" in its various forms. As in, wow, this is what's left, after violence/ trauma/ fall from the ideal? Ew, no thanks. Where do you go from there? You laugh about it, and then you abruptly stop laughing, and then you laugh about it some more. These are friendly fun poems about some horrible stuff that mostly happens off the page"--

Contents

  • Salvage
  • Laying down the groundwork
  • Mutualism
  • Freaking out
  • Equal and opposite
  • Party time
  • Never mind
  • The listening section
  • Brutal honesty
  • Nourished and enriched
  • Tyrannosaur
  • Affirmations
  • Phases
  • Holiday
  • The happy middle
  • In some ways I have changed
  • In my natural habitat
  • Transformation
  • What's up buttercup
  • Orchestrated intent
  • Practice
  • Epimetheus at the tattoo parlor
  • Prometheus to his liver growing overnight
  • When someone says a place on stage and only a handful of people in the audience emit an uncertain WOOOOOOO
  • Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you have a nice day
  • Temptation
  • Martha's vineyard
  • In that life
  • Close friends
  • Epic
  • Botched Corinthians, retconned Corinthians
  • Testimony
  • Tenderly
  • For seeing in the dark
  • Horror minus terror
  • Volunteering
  • Vespertine is the name of a restaurant in LA with an 18-plus-course tasting menu
  • Child of god
  • Poem for Jackson
  • What about hell then
  • When I wake up from a bad dream I am ravenous
  • Ichor, mean the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods, as in Greek mythology, or, a watery discharge from a wound
  • Lessons
  • Archetype
  • Summer in Austin, TX
  • Manners
  • Plagiarism
  • New Year's Eve
  • Last night
  • Will you disabuse me
  • Still.

Genres

Poetry.