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As Long as We're Here

As Long as We're Here

Brouwer, Joel

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ISBN10: 1961897784
ISBN13: 9781961897786
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

As Long as We're Here is an off-key anthem, a funhouse mirror held up to our dumpster fire era. Chronically online, distracted and distracting, with too many browser tabs open at once, attentive to everything and focused on nothing, Brouwer delights in the late capitalist absurdities of sleeping apps and internet dance crazes, and riffs on the argot of the group chat and the team meeting. These slippery poems both suffer from and revel in their ADD. Their shifts are as fleet as our news feeds, their serpentine sentences leap from barroom jests to high modernist splendor and back. But the book is not all fun and games. Dreamy tales of edgelords and loyalty oaths often arrive at places of surprising pathos and beauty. Mortality gnaws at the narrators of these poems, and political unrest lurks in the background. Still, a sense of solidarity--that we of the title, a recurring pronoun throughout--keeps despair at bay. Indeed, As Long as We're Here is a book of intimacy, of the coterie. Friends and lovers people its lyrics, which often feel like late-night hang sessions with eccentric, wise-cracking pals. Full of wry wisdom and lush music, As Long as We're Here knows what to do with a diminished thing: make it sing.

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