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  title info:
    title: Human hours
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Barnett, Catherine
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 95 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Catherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are "accursed," that are limited and unanswered by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow or at least measure time with quiet bravura, by counting a lover's breaths, by remembering a father's space-age watch, by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.
  table of contents: The amenities -- En route -- An apprehension -- The light from across the fields -- The skin of the face is that which stays most naked, most destitute -- Forensics -- Epistemology -- Still life -- Landscape with borrowed contours -- Lyric and narrative time at Café Loup -- Accursed Questions, i -- Appeal to numbers -- Comic morning -- Idée fixe -- Essay on An essay concerning human understanding -- Son in August -- Lore -- The necessary preoccupations -- The art of the security question -- O Esperanza! -- Accursed questions, ii -- The humanities -- Calamity Jane on Etsy after the 2016 election -- Another Divine comedy -- Let facts be submitted to a candid wind -- Metaphor on the Crosstown -- Summons -- The sky flashes -- Origin story -- Central Park -- Accursed questions, iii -- Pain scale -- In the studio at end of day -- 433 Eros -- Uncertainty principle at the Atrium Bar -- Uncertainty principle at dawn -- Beckett on the Jumbotron -- Prayer for the lost among us -- The material world -- Eternal recurrance -- Accursed questions, iv -- Amor fati.
  note: Catherine Barnett.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
  subject:
    topic: Time perception
    genre: Poetry
  classification: 811.54
  identifier: 9781555978143
  identifier: 1555978142
  identifier: 2018934481
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180213
    record change date: 20211018102353.0
    record identifier: in00004437579