Birth center in corporate woods/
"The poems in BJ Soloy's Birth Center in Corporate Woods use long, contorting lines and elliptical connections to wade through the collisions of love, eros, loss, irony, pop culture, and late capitalism. From city to city and year to year, these poems trace landscapes personal, cultural, a...
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[United States] :
Black Lawrence Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Yet music. Back on Central Street, magnitude explained
- [indistinguishable chatter]
- This television show is implicitly subtitled "The Destruction"
- But little to say
- My face is a wrinkled knuckle, realizing Lamentations has been removed from our text
- To be sung in the language of the audience
- I knew before I started that I would end up a body in the fields
- World War drone wardrobe
- There's a car wreck here every day, fatal, & a news cast, here, every day, about the fatal car wreck
- In an unexpected consumer emergency, I find myself
- Remission inventory. Novelty country song
- [sighing]
- Heartland, pt. 1
- Charlotte Street
- Hunted by dead animals
- Entelechy, Nebraska
- Remission inventory
- After you patent your blue
- The Hoosier seat
- Taxidermy as a brand of domesticity
- The second descent
- Heartland, pt. 2
- [door slamming]
- [dramatic music continues]
- The answer
- Benesh
- The shallows
- The singing ear. You say mosquito
- Heartland, pt. 3
- Under the Nancy Grace of weather
- Act five
- St. Fontanelle
- Hamber descant, a single entendre
- Dear floor, I am falling
- *Heartland restrictions
- Josh Tree
- In a double-wide with a sulf'rous well, I wrote my son a song
- The first descent
- Greenough Park [water sloshing]
- [inaudible question]
- [glass breaking].