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Blessing the Exoskeleton: Poems

Blessing the Exoskeleton: Poems

Hemmert, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822966972
ISBN13: 9780822966975
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author's father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the author's apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate.

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