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The Ocean in the Next Room: Poems
Paperback
Series: Jake Adam York Prize
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781571315632
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Jan 14 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism.
The question isn't / what exists, writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, The question is what doesn't / die with us? Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath our frenzied consumer culture. Stillness. Sunsets. The circadian rhythm of trees. These poems guide us to look past branding, content-creation, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention.
In verse that is at once inventive and innately familiar, Schweig unpacks the urge to make art, life, and connections even at the risk of becoming further entangled in the Anthropocene. Profound and clear-sighted, this collection urges us to lift our gazes from our screens and really look at the world around us. If we measure our attentions and sharpen our intentions, if we try again to write / the true things, we might spy something real on the horizon.
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