Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're
Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of
the Finnish art of kalsarikannit-drinking at home, alone in your
underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's
characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a
hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work,
Outlander, semiotics, and more. Combatting existential gloom with a
wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and
the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and
John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with
Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical,
these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with
raucous imagery: an insect in high heels, a wolf at an
uncomfortable party, a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet
whose "voice lifts from the page, alive and biting" (Sky Sanchez,
San Francisco Book Review), Addonizio reminds her reader, "if you
think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is
coming."
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