LEADER 02149nam 2200445 450 001 9910821272603321 005 20240112051708.0 010 $a9780822989622$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9780822966975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29960491 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29960491 035 $a(CKB)24858943900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1346215811 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102911 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924858943900041 100 $a20240112d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlessing the Exoskeleton $ePoems /$fAndrew Hemmert 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pa. :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (97 pages) 225 1 $aPitt Poetry Series 311 08$aPrint version: Hemmert, Andrew Blessing the Exoskeleton Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2022 9780822966975 330 $aBlessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author's father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the author's apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate. 410 0$aPitt poetry. 606 $aPoetry 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $a895.134 700 $aHemmert$b Andrew$01610558 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910821272603321 996 $aBlessing the Exoskeleton$94091813 997 $aUNINA