Hello I Must Be Going : Poems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (95 pages)
- Pitt Poetry Series .
- Pitt Poetry Series .
Intro -- Contents -- I. Shoutout to Ed Ruscha -- Hello I Must Be Going -- We're This and We're That, Aren't We? -- Depths of Despair -- Hurry Up Schedule -- It's Only Vanishing Cream -- Woman on Fire -- S.S. Nevertheless -- Decibel House -- History Kids -- These Are Brave Days -- Thinking the Same -- Falling but Frozen -- Historical Dust -- A Life that Doubles-Back on Itself -- Water Soluble Dreams -- Those of Us Who Have Double Parked -- Varieties of Internal Torment -- Hello I Must Be Going -- Uncertain Frontier -- Century Sickness -- Made in California -- II. The Silent Docent -- Landscape with Pink Tulips Distorted by Dread -- Landscape with Active Shooter Cutting through a National Park -- Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking -- Landscape with American Sycamore and the Severed Heads of Bees -- Landscape with Blurred Figures Running toward the Vanishing Point -- Landscape with Pumpjacks Overtaken by Vines -- Landscape with Protesters on One Side, Police on the Other, a Pasture in Between -- Landscape with Abandoned Picnic and Flames -- Landscape with Doctor Taking a Breather -- Landscape with Cheetah Going Seventy in the Serengeti -- Still Life (2020) -- III. Beside Our Breaths -- Jean-Michel Basquiat's Bones -- Ai Weiwei's Middle Finger -- Marina Abramović's Gaze -- Meditation on Impermanence -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Ekphrastic, Meditative Poems from a Writer with Astonishing Range.