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Over Here

Over Here

Gillis, Alan

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1943667233
ISBN13: 9781943667239
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
In Over Here, Alan Gillis reveals surreal intersections of mind and world, neither of which are stable: For the mind is the sea, / the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth / moving and suspended until it's not. If Gillis's poems feel like a high-wire act, they remain grounded, conscious of the threat of a brutal fall. Violence is often at the edges, as are anxieties of climate change, the staggering death toll of the pandemic, toxic masculinity, and internet trolls. Still, humor is a staple in this volume: my head and backbone / through demonic consubstantiation, / are now seventy-five percent smartphone. Equally attentive to pastoral possibility and our digital reality, to poetic form and even the poetic use of emojis, Gillis answers angst with an abundant hope-- in language, in nature, and their intermingling intricacies: It's hard to be anything other than a doomster, but we're lifted by the swooshed pines of this woodland, in and out of our minds, its comedy of squirrels, moss-bed squelch, ladybird throng.

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