Swan Hammer

An Instructor’s Guide to Mirrors

Maggie Graber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

108 Seiten

2022
Wheelbarrow Books (Verlag)
978-1-61186-431-1 (ISBN)

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This collection chronicles coming of age as a queer millennial in a twenty-first century America defined by the internet, climate crisis, and a growing disconnection that the poems within work to resist. Here, everyone and everything serves as a potential reflection for something larger than the poet can understand: an unknown debit card thief, the cartoon teacher Ms. Frizzle, The Weather Channel, an RV park, a dead poet. These poems seek to make something of the spaces between and reach toward a sense of the ecstatic just beyond. They are poems of imagination and vision that strive to look rather than look away, that attempt to capture a nebulous feeling before it is gone for good. Swan Hammer is an instructor’s guide to connection-making, of seeing and then seeing again, in ways that have been redefined in the age of the internet. Here is one poet’s wandering relationship to their own sense of what it is to be alive and queer at a time when there is so much on the brink of disappearing—and what a queer experience it is.

MAGGIE GRABER is a queer millennial poet from the Great Lakes. She is a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a certified Wilderness First Responder. She currently serves as poetry editor for Yalobusha Review.

Contents Self-Portrait as Hammer The Poet Dreams of Levitation Pi Day The Ghost of Robert Frost Visits Roller Derby Night in Southern Illinois Poem for Whomever Hacked My Debit Card and Spent $150 at the Macy’s in Alexandria, Virginia Poem for My Downstairs Neighbor Elegy for the Early 21st Century Hipster Dear Los Angeles I remember Nashville, the dueling piano bar iContact / Screens Tomato Prayer Seasonal Getting Lost in Gary, Indiana Day 1, December 22, 2012 Margaret Genesis, Suburbia les(bi)an Window Seat Arithmetic clavicle sympathy pains Why I Shouldn’t Be an FBI Special Agent infinity tunnel: haiku Marble Self-Portrait as a Jack-o’-Lantern Would You Rather Sonnet RV Nation Ode to The Weather Channel Self-Portrait as Loan Payment Ode to Graph Paper, or Questions for the Cardinal Specialization: Early 2000s House Rules Glendalough Poem Wearing a Party Hat The Sweatshirt, 2005 Elegy for Seth Cohen from The O.C. Four Poets, a Bicycle, and a Walk through an Empty Parking Lot moonkite: haiku Cognitive Function Moonrise Ritual Poem Ending with Fantasy of Building a Bonfire At the Twilight of the Big Bang The Crickets Remember Poem for Ms. Frizzle tree hugger Embodied swan hammer Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Wheelbarrow Books
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-61186-431-3 / 1611864313
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-431-1 / 9781611864311
Zustand	Neuware