Exit opera : poems /
Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from a ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject, jazz, zombies, Buddhis...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Exit opera
- I. Existential voyage
- 20.5 Light years from earth
- Some of the questions to consider
- My opera
- Games people play
- Self-portrait as a goldfish trapped in a toilet
- Insomnia song
- Swoon
- Getting to know you
- In Assisi
- In the afterlife
- Oracle at Delphi
- Self-portrait with a statue of Fernando Pessoa
- According to the Buddhists
- This too shall pass
- Jump in the river and drown
- Kansas, four A.M.
- II. Beatitude
- Blues on Avenue C
- Compassion problem
- Traces
- Another spring
- Bad motel
- Upstate
- Tidal
- Paris
- Unleaving
- Solace
- Night out
- III. Existential elegy
- Jazz in 20/20
- Eschatology
- Divination
- Self-portrait with heavy rain
- Cracked logic
- Vanishing point
- Therefore I am nothing
- Predator report
- I believe this way of life is ending, I said
- Journey to the end of season one of American Horror Story
- Ode to England
- Transfer of power
- Ohio
- The distance
- Dark and getting darker
- Aria Di Sorbetto
- By way of a reminder.