At the End of the World There Is a Pond (eBook)

Poems

Steven Duong (Autor)

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2025
112 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
9781324086796 (ISBN)

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A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways we betray ourselves.At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupturethe ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of violence, familial conflict, and ecological catastropheand yet the speakers engage with despair and playfulness in equal measure, always allowing humor, irony, and the exuberance of contemporary life to bend darkness toward something like hope.Again and again, Steven Duongs writing excavates the unnatural conditions of a seemingly natural world, asking us to pay studied attention to its inhabitants. His poems force us to keep looking: at the betta fish trapped in its mason jar, the forest choked by invasive kudzu, the elephant wounded in a landmine blast. Through its relentless scrutiny and exacting care, this magisterial debut collection poses an impossible question: How can we reconcile a deep love for the world, in all its buzzing, wriggling aliveness, with an equally deep, self-destructive desire to leave it behind?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Apocalyptic writing • displacement poetry • friendship poems • Migration • nature poetry • poems about death • poems about life • poetry about freedom • poetry about nature • post-war writing • relationshop poems
• ISBN-13: 9781324086796 / 9781324086796