Soft Apocalypse (Paperback)

Soft Apocalypse pirouettes in the "anemic glow" of late capitalism, its lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going and 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." Anybody in these poems may use ordinary, embodied matters-"raw materials" and "dream residuals"-to shimmy out of dire, official measures and into "an unmarked rest," an excess, or any "o vacancy!" where unofficial exchanges may be made. Soft Apocalypse insistently edges these minor events 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.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Georgia Poetry Prize Series
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Leah Nieboer • Andrew Zawacki
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-6369-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8203-6369-3
Barcode:	9780820363691

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