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Another City: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571314864
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 13 2018
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
WINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZE
How does it feel to experience another city? To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd? To attempt to be heard above the din?
The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape--a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen--to the streets themselves, where an alley was a comma in the agony's grammar, in David Keplinger's hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare.
Yet Another City deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when the wound, called loneliness, / opens, and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince.
This is a rich portrait of the seemingly incommunicable expanses between people, places, and ideas--and the ability of a poem to transcend the void.
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