Sarah V. Schweig

The Ocean in the Next Room (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism.

The question isn't / what exists, writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, The question is what doesn't / die with us? Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath our frenzied consumer culture. Stillness. Sunsets. The circadian rhythm of trees. These poems guide us to look past branding, content-creation, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention.

In verse that is at once inventive and innately familiar, Schweig unpacks the urge to make art, life, and connections even at the risk of becoming further entangled in the Anthropocene. Profound and clear-sighted, this collection urges us to lift our gazes from our screens and really look at the world around us. If we measure our attentions and sharpen our intentions, if we try again to write / the true things, we might spy something real on the horizon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571317841
• Artikelnr.: 73423404

Autorenporträt

Sarah V. Schweig’s poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Tin House , and the Yale Review, and her critical essays have appeared in Public Seminar, and Tourniquet Review. Her first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press. She works as an editor, studies philosophy, and lives in Portland,Maine with her husband and son.

Inhaltsangabe

1.
Toward the Great Unity 1
The Tower 3
Poem on My Birthday 8
Tractatus 10
2.
Five Skeins 19
Meanwhile in our City of Abandon 24
Contingencies (III) 27
Theory of Ash 29
3.
Unaccompanied Human Voice 32
Waves 63
The Blue House 70
Longest Night 71
Notes 73
Acknowledgments 75