High Lonesome

High Lonesome is a radio left on in a candlelit room, playing softly into the shadows as the hours fall through the evening. Interruptions of static, a slow confetti of grief drifting into the corners, mysterious white noise dispatches. Here is a meditation on estrangement–from an other, from the world, from the self–and its long aftermath spent learning how to cultivate tenderness and devotion in a world “where nobody / is tender enough,” a practice that alternates between sorrow and transcendence. These poems are little ceremonies of attention to a variety of lonelinesses, both human and non-human. Strange, lyrical and funny, the third collection of poems by Allison Titus simultaneously reckons with and marvels at “the luminously borrowed / experiment that living is” in a world that feels terrible and hopeful, beautiful and precarious.

Author: Allison Titus
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: 10/15/2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.52h x 7.07w x 0.06d
ISBN: 9781947817562
Language: English

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