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Exit Opera: Poems
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Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781324130659
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.12
Language: English
Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject--jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers--these poems make for a compelling mix of humor and pain, difficulty and solace. In a nod to Keats, one of the many fellow travelers in these poems, Addonizio invites us to [inscribe] a few verses on whatever water / you can find and assures readers that they are not alone in navigating the challenges and changes of mortal life. As she writes in My Opera
are involved, high-redshift galaxies, interior chambers,
a little country blues, a little jazz guitar, a jam jar containing
a tiny ocean & a tinier rowboat rocking gently in the swells
that I am steering toward you in the dark.
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