Overview
In Wilderāselected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for PoetryāClaire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the alphabet spells out disaster and devours children. Here plate tectonics birth a misery rift, spinning loved ones away from each other across an uncaring sea. And here the cosmosāand Cosmos, as Carl Saganās hopeful words are fissured by erasureāyawns wide.
Wilder is grimly visceral but also darkly sly; it paints its world in shades of neon and rust, and its apocalypse in language that runs both sublime and matter-of-fact. āSome of us didn't have lungs left,ā writes Wahmanholm. āSo when we lay beneath the loudspeaker skyāwhen we were told to pay attention to our breathāwe had to improvise.ā The result is a debut collection that both beguiles and wounds, whose sky is āblack at noon, black in the afternoon.ā
This book title, Wilder (Poems), ISBN: 9781571315069, by Wahmanholm Claire, published by Milkweed Editions (November 13, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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