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portada Boats in the Attic (Poets out Loud)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
102
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.6 x 14.0 x 0.7 cm
Weight
0.15 kg.
ISBN13
9781531500856
Edition No.
1
Categories

Boats in the Attic (Poets out Loud)

Alison Powell (Author) · Fordham University Press · Paperback

Boats in the Attic (Poets out Loud) - Powell, Alison

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Synopsis "Boats in the Attic (Poets out Loud) "

Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon--all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, "developing a cryptography to a century / to which we are not invited." In this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: "We begin to consider other planets -- / Will they have us?" In a long piece titled "Book of Revelation," the speaker dreams that "below the bed / is an encyclopedia of lost things," a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, Alice in Wonderland, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.

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