Climbing a Burning Rope: Poems (Pitt Poetry) - Softcover

Davis, John Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822967227 ISBN 13: 9780822967224

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024

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In Climbing a Burning Rope, John Paul Davis focuses his peculiar imagination, philosophical lyricism, and misfit spiritual outlook on life in the hypercapitalist twenty-first century where the inscrutable logic of algorithms haunts our constantly connected selves. Celebrating the weird and wild, lamenting wounds and weariness, Davis’s poems carve out a space in which we can reclaim what is sacred and be reminded to keep something of ourselves for ourselves.  

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John Paul Davis is the author of Crown Prince of Rabbits, and his poems have appeared in RATTLE, Bennington Review, Maine Review, MUZZLE, The Journal, and many others. His writing is informed by the many odd jobs he has held, including bike messenger, line cook, warehouse manager, roller-rink deejay, college professor, stablehand, paperboy, soundman, and bookseller, among others. He now works as a web developer and lives in New York City. 

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EXCERPT FROM “ZUGZWANG” 

We have to build wealth 

you replied & I have nothing against money 

except what worries me 

about the world we live in, how every dollar 

is traceable to slavery, 

the disintegrating glaciers, 

murders by police, 

the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 

mass extinctions 

 

& I imagine us scrambling 

up a burning rope 

trying to keep above the fire. 

We can't let go 

& we can't climb forever 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822967227
• ISBN 13: 9780822967224
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 98
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