This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find
themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid
narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate
their relationship and understand their identities amid a landscape
that offers them almost nothing. The continent at first seems
empty, but something emerges in the vacuum of Antarctica. The
narrator's gender skips and changes, and the characters'
self-awareness grows into a sort of horror. Dennis James Sweeney's
poems consider the fullness of emptiness, revealing attempts to
love and grow when surrounded by a white and frigid landscape that
seems to go on forever. The space of these poems is something
beyond the Antarctic of scientific exploration, the icy outpost
that has served for so long as a masculine proving ground for polar
explorers. This is the Antarctica of domestic disharmony, of love
amid loneliness, where two people encounter themselves in the
changeless breadth at the end of the world. In the Antarctic Circle
is the winner of the Autumn House Press 2020 Rising Writer Prize in
Poetry.
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