The Last Song of the World - Softcover

Fasano, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960145339 ISBN 13: 9781960145338

Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd., 2024

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Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient ruins and mythological figures, these poems serve as vignettes of fatherhood, love, and desire against the backdrop of apocalyptic events.

Through the documentation of ongoing violence and natural phenomena, Fasano depicts the ever-present anxieties of parenting with concision and compassion. The Last Song of the World is a love letter to the world that could be—a world as tender as it is bold, as loving as it is brutal, as beautiful as it is horrendous. 

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Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, and songwriter. His books include The Last Song of the World (2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (2020), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.” His book The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024), a collection of poetry prompts and exercises, helps people of all ages unlock their creativity. His writing has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber).

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AFTER LOVE

Now that you have lost

the way you’d taken,

walk out through the new moon

in the spruces

and lie down in the deep leaves

of the clearing.

Listen: they are still here,

the wild things,

migrations moving on again from winter.

All your life

you heard a word

of the singing,

all your life

admitted just a bit of it;

all your life

you played your one

small part.

Wake now. Stay here

with your parting

arms

and do it, finally

do it: open

to the whole of it, the whole of it,

the wind that sings

what’s been since the beginning.

Listen. Listen. Listen.

There is no one

you’re betraying

in your changes

when you become the whole wild song of what you are.

 

SHADOW PUPPETS

for my son

All my life I sought

a little comfort,

a little home

from which I once

was banished.

Now I lie beside you in the moonlight

and laugh with you

at the shadows on the ceiling:

these mythic things, these wings, these

bears,

their dance.

All my life my life was trying to make you—

you

who show me

this

is what a life is,

this living

it, this making

darkness beautiful,

this knowing that our world is in our hands.

 

WORDS FOUND IN THE RUBBLE AFTER THE LAST WAR

Yes, we lived in a time of darkness

and did nothing.

Yes, we looked up and we saw

the sky on fire,

and we knew that we had made the flames

with our own hands.

Yes, we wasted every breath

on rage.

Children, if any of you have survived this,

start again

with the simplest things, we beg you.

Walk out through the garden of the darkness

and touch each other’s faces

in the morning air.

Slowly. Slowly. Say each other’s names.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1960145339
• ISBN 13: 9781960145338
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
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