The Interrogation: Poems - Michael Bazzett

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Résumé :
?I needed to laugh and wonder and wince and gasp. I needed to see all this glorious seeing. You need this book too.??Danez Smith

Biographie:
Michael Bazzett is a poet, teacher, and 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in?Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus,?and?Best New Poets.?You Must Remember This, his debut collection, received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. Another collection of poems, Our Lands Are Not So Different, is forthcoming from Horsethief Books. He lives in Minneapolis.

Sommaire:
Contents

Cruelty

I

The City
At Night
Nowhere
At Half-Island
The Central Registry
Ithaca
They Held It in Their Hands
The Unnerving Thing
The Cellar
Everybody
Sunflowers
Okay
The Subterranean

II

The Dawdler
The Interrogation
In the Himalayas
The Earth Inside
The Silence
The Man with No Mouth
The Matrons
There Are Things We Cannot See
Moles
My Body Is Not an Axe
Nobody Fails at Meditation
On the One Hand
To the Woman Drinking Three Gin & Tonics

III

The Phone Call
Lazarus
The Birth
When He Was A Boy
The Fable of the Man
Early November
Country Squire Landscape Services
Hold Me

IV

Confessions
The Handshake
Island
Other Names for Fire
The Fact
The Mechanic
The Encounter
Rain
Last Exit
The Telepathic Heart
For the Person I Have Not Met
On the Subway
Miles
Gag
I Went to the Market
The Book of My Life

V

[ the words I have not written ]
They
The Meat of It
In the Book
The Hole
The Little Things
The Monster
The Two of Us
Almost Invisible
The Light
The Plot

Acknowledgments