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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 restl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Catherine, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Subjects:
American literature.
Time perception > Poetry.
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.