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Soft Apocalypse

Soft Apocalypse

Nieboer, Leah
Zawacki, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Georgia Poetry Prize

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 0820363693
ISBN13: 9780820363691
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Soft Apocalypse pirouettes in the anemic glow of late capitalism, its prose poems and lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going on. Chrome angels, strange beloveds, and cool-eyed speakers cut speculative lines through precarious spaces of the present--deserts and nightscapes, neon-lit strips, corner stores, foreclosures, pharmacy queues, and crumpled back alleys--making imaginative economies, queer kinships, and alternative ways of being in the world. Nothing here is done with ease, but irreducible gifts do slip surreptitiously from palm to palm: after all, we all need a little help sometimes / baby.

Soft Apocalypse insistently edges these unofficial exchanges and intimate apprehensions against the official orders, projections, violations, and isolations of our time. Instead of calculating toward a dystopic ending, this book bets on its softer wrecks, a futurity in an intimately rewired collective.

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