02149nam 2200445 450 991082127260332120240112051708.09780822989622(electronic bk.)9780822966975(MiAaPQ)EBC29960491(Au-PeEL)EBL29960491(CKB)24858943900041(OCoLC)1346215811(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102911(EXLCZ)992485894390004120240112d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlessing the Exoskeleton Poems /Andrew HemmertFirst edition.Pittsburgh, Pa. :University of Pittsburgh Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (97 pages)Pitt Poetry SeriesPrint version: Hemmert, Andrew Blessing the Exoskeleton Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2022 9780822966975 Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author's father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the author's apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate.Pitt poetry.PoetryPoetry.895.134Hemmert Andrew1610558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910821272603321Blessing the Exoskeleton4091813UNINA