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My daily actions, or the meteorites

Call Number

  • 811 C7979 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.

Physical Description

70 pages ; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections.

Summary

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting -- that the "ordinary" would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isn't yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world. The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice ("journaling") meets the associative power of the poem.--Publisher's description.

Genres

Poetry.

Added Authors

Cathy Park Hong

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