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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838267903321

Autore

Guenette Matthew

Titolo

Doom Scroll : Poems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : University of Akron Press, The, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-62922-232-1

1-62922-233-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 pages)

Collana

Akron Series in Poetry

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Love Will Tear Us Apart -- Sticky Notes -- Worst Punk Band -- Awesome Dad -- Cul-de-Sac -- Rubber Chicken -- Motivational Poster -- Punk Song -- Finger Roll -- Lurid Dreamcatcher -- Put It on a T-Shirt -- Pigeon -- Shipwreck -- Your Results Aren't Good -- I, Too, Have Been Unfaithful -- Chicken Sandwich -- Middle School Research Project -- Seasons of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness -- Space Smells Like Metal -- Credit Card -- I Against I -- I Used to Be a Landscaper -- A Wicked Case of Hiccups -- Wormhole -- Nuclear Volleyball -- Discount Hand Grenades -- Hazmat Suit -- The Great Pyramids -- Bigger Wave -- You Sound Like Your Mother -- This Guy from Turkey -- Doom Scroll -- A Quick Bedtime Story -- GO TEAM! -- Jack and Diane -- Gutter Guy -- Din -- Disentanglement Puzzle -- Folk Song -- Back-To-School Supplies -- Brother-In-Law -- Eating My Peas -- The Trojan Horse Appears in New Hampshire -- Cancel Culture -- Phoebe Bourassa -- But We Still Have More Errands to Run -- To the Lake -- Trouble -- Clouds -- Yellow Rain Slicker -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

"Doom Scroll explores an anxious domesticity. These prose poems hedge toward moments of levity-a Joy Division song, a meal at Denny's, underwear draped over a fence "like a lurid dreamcatcher" -as a pandemic lockdown, busted politics, and other existential dreads loom in the margins"--