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Durable Goods

Durable Goods

Pollock, James

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1550656104
ISBN13: 9781550656107
Publisher: Signal Editions
Published: Mar 21 2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.24 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.32
Language: English

Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselves--our fear, love, rage, hope, and grief--and strange beings with inner lives of their own. It knows how much pressure you've been under, Pollock writes, of the barometer, that you could use a change of atmosphere. Read together, these poems immerse us in an imagined world with the power to make us see our own in a new way. Suffused with dazzling wordplay, razor wit, and rippling sonic effects, the poems richly reward being read aloud. Indeed, for Pollock, the most durable good is language itself.

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