Hindsight : poems /
Hindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems in this collection attempt to find a language to describe the breakage. But political fracture occurs...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Hindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems in this collection attempt to find a language to describe the breakage. But political fracture occurs because of more fundamental dislocations: for this book, most crucially, spiritual. A search for forms of the sacred drives the whole collection. It’s a book of questions, not answers. In places, it struggles with the Christian story of sacrifice and crucifixion: a heretical attempt to make sense of suffering and of aggression. “Offices” and “Concerning ceremonies” borrow Christian liturgy to chart an experience of learning compassion. Each poem asks some version of the driving question from “Dead Flowers.” “What can be made of all this / grief.” Other poems turn to Judaism and Buddhism to see what wisdom they offer. |
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| Physical Description: | 78 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781324116950 1324116951 |