The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That by Nick Lantz Paperba

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That by Nick Lantz Is that something I should put in a poem? asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantzs collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the centre of the collection. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Is that something I should put in a poem?" asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. The resounding answer is yes! A chicken lives for eighteen months after its head is cut off. Tourists pose with an inflatable sex doll at the 9/11 memorial. A sex-reveal party starts a wildfire in a forest named for a conquistador. The authors cancer treatments are intertwined with the rise of domestic fascism. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantzs collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the center of the collection. All titled "Word of the Day," these poems capture the disruption and disorder of our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in breathless, unpunctuated verse. "You cant carry water in a sentence," says the author—but after reading this collection it just might seem possible. These poems depict the uncanny dissonance of living during and beyond events that feel world ending and remind us of the ways in which we carry our own traumas and the traumas of history with us in our daily lives.Life is all gilded frescoes and Arnold Palmers at the clubhouse until Titus and his men pass through with torches, until CortÉs and his men pass through with torches, until Sherman and his men and so on, until men forget what their hands looked like without torches. —Excerpt from "Ruin" Author Biography Nick Lantz is the author of four previous books of poetry, including You, Beast (winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry) and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors House (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry). His poems have appeared in many journals as well as in the Best American Poetry anthology. He has won several awards, including the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lantz teaches in the MFA program at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas, with his wife and cats. Table of Contents 1RuinPoem on a Photo of a Reflection of a Bowl of Plastic FruitA Bow, a Basket, a CloudPoem Not Ending with a Phone CallThe RabbitPoem Not Ending with a GestureAfter AeschylusPoem Not Ending with U.S. Border Agents Tear-Gassing Migrant ChildrenI Feel Like a Million $Poem Not Ending with Francisco VÁzquez de CoronadoThe Three Types of KnowledgePoem Not Ending in a Shrug2Word of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the DayWord of the Day3PostoperativePoem Not Ending with the Presidents Hands Upturned in an Expression of Unfathomable IndifferencePoem Not Ending with AnesthesiaOde to the Dead of Bowling GreenA Cloud Weighs over a Million PoundsPoem Not Ending with My Grandfathers WillPhotograph of My Wife Shaving My HeadMise en AbymeThe Survivorship"Terrific," "Tremendous," "Loser," "Tough," "Smart," "Weak," "Dangerous," "Great," "Stupid," "Classy," "Big," "Huge," "Amazing," "Lightweight," "Win," "Bad," "Crooked," "Moron," "We," "They," "Zero"My Father, SingingPoem Not Ending with a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 VictimsAn Urn for AshesAcknowledgments Review "Is that something I should put in a poem?" asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. The resounding answer is yes! A chicken lives for eighteen months after its head is cut off. Tourists pose with an inflatable sex doll at the 9/11 memorial. A sex-reveal party starts a wildfire in a forest named for a conquistador. The authors cancer treatments are intertwined with the rise of domestic fascism. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantzs collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the center of the collection. All titled "Word of the Day," these poems capture the disruption and disorder of our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in breathless, unpunctuated verse. "You cant carry water in a sentence," says the author—but after reading this collection it just might seem possible. These poems depict the uncanny dissonance of living during and beyond events that feel world ending and remind us of the ways in which we carry our own traumas and the traumas of history with us in our daily lives.Life is all gilded frescoes and Arnold Palmers at the clubhouse until Titus and his men pass through with torches, until CortÉs and his men pass through with torches, until Shermanand his men and so on, until men forget what their hands looked like without torches. —Excerpt from "Ruin" Details ISBN029934794X Author Nick Lantz Pages 116 Publisher University of Wisconsin Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780299347949 Format Paperback Imprint University of Wisconsin Press Audience General Series Wisconsin Poetry Series Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Wisconsin ISBN-10 029934794X DEWEY 811.6 Publication Date 2024-03-31 US Release Date 2024-03-31 UK Release Date 2024-03-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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