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The Most Charming Creatures: Poems

The Most Charming Creatures: Poems

Barwin, Gary

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ISBN10: 1770416617
ISBN13: 9781770416611
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: Sep 20 2022
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and tenderness. While these poems energize and connect and turn the paren- / theses inside out so that / we mean everything, they are also alive to the alluring complicity of language and its duplicity and deceptions. This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but / while we watch.

A follow-up to the award-winning author's acclaimed selected poems, this new collection continues Barwin's examination of the possibilities of the poem: a celebration, a story, an investigation, a riff, a word machine, a parable, a transformation. But what are the most charming creatures of the title? In 1862, scientific illustrator Ernst Haeckel termed radiolarians (ancient single-celled organisms with mineral skeletons) the most charming creatures, but here Barwin turns the microscope around to consider something just as strange and mysterious: language, our culture, and the self. From microorganisms, onion rings, grief, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to beetles, neoliberalism, sandwiches, Martin Luther, and stand-up comedy, he offers: it's a miracle that we've survived / it's a miracle that we've survived at all.

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