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My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites

My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites

Corfman, S. Brook
Hong, Cathy Park

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Series: Poets Out Loud

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0823289494
ISBN13: 9780823289493
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Sep 1 2020
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

NAMED THE BEST POETRY OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting--that the ordinary would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isn't yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world. The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice (journaling) meets the associative power of the poem.

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