Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible

Rebecca Lindenberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

100 Seiten

2024
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-960145-29-1 (ISBN)

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Living in landscapes of ruin and ruination, memory and problematic nostalgia, Rebecca Lindenberg’s Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible plumbs the depths of disruption, decay, and how we go on when the world stops cold. Inspired by the speaker’s experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, the collection chronicles humanity’s daily fight for survival in a world that’s bent on destroying itself.

Lindenberg centers love, self-acceptance, and intimacy as incomparable balms across great geographical and psychological distances, and asks the reader to do the impossible: hope.

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of three poetry collections, Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible (BOA Editions, 2024), The Logan Notebooks (Mountain West Poetry Series, 2014), winner of the Utah Book Award, and Love, an Index (McSweeney’s, 2012). She’s the recipient of an Amy Lowell Scholarship for Traveling Poets, a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she also serves as Poetry Editor for the Cincinnati Review.

To My Insulin Pump

A Brief History of the Future
Apocalypse

The Woodpecker

Spiel: A Love Poem

On Memory

Studies from Childhood

The Grape Arbor

Birch Elevator

Bird of Paradise

Tanbark

Greased Melon Day

Bottle Brush Bees

Black Mamba

Lamb’s Ear

Juniper Issues

Oleander

Rose Watering

Sequoia

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He Asks Me to Send Him Some
Words (FromMy House)

II.

Failing at Epilogue in San
Telmo Flea Market

Chronic Illness Imagined as a
Haunting

Andean Pastoral

Ode to Anthony Bourdain

Sacsayhuamán

Imaginary Prisons

Reverse-Engineering Their
Sacrifice

At Teufelsberg in the Subjunctive Mood

Blood Magic

The Beelitz Heilstätten

Drinking
at Szimpla with Emily
and Laurel

Sligo Abbey

Ohio

I Ask Him to Send Me Some
Words (ReadingThe Florida Handbook)

III.

Discourses of Diabetes Care

Our Splendid Failure to Do the
Impossible

Diagnosis

Clockwork Girl

Notes on the Impossible

The Impossible Body

How the First of Many Burnouts
Begins

Short Essay on Failure

Notes on Feelings of Failure

Short Essay On Those I Do Not
Want to Fail

Magic Words

The Splendid Body

To Gather Stones Together

Some Further Notes on the
Impossible

Elegy for my Car, Wrecked on
the Cape Highway

Within

Productions of Failure

Table of Contents: An
Aspirational

Introduction to a Poem at a
Reading

He Asks Me to Send Him Some
Words (Here inHis Garden)

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-960145-29-0 / 1960145290
ISBN-13	978-1-960145-29-1 / 9781960145291
Zustand	Neuware