Now we're getting somewhere Poems

Kim Addonizio, 1954-

Book - 2021

"A no-holds-barred, dark, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. An essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kal-sarikännit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out-Now We're Getting Somewhere charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Dorothy Parker, John Keats, Outlander, semiotics, and more. The poems are sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, weaving from desolation to drollery. A poet whose "voice lifts from the page, alive and biting" (San Francisco Book Review), Kim Addonizio reminds her reader, "If you think nothing and no one can / listen I love you joy... is coming.""--

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Subjects
Genres
Poetry
Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Kim Addonizio, 1954- (author)
Edition
First Edition
Physical Description
x, 85 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780393540895
  • I. Might in the castle
  • Night in the Castle
  • Black Hour Blues
  • Fixed and In Flux
  • Animals
  • Comfort of the Resurrection
  • Grace
  • High Desert, New Mexico
  • Signs
  • The Earth Is About Used Up
  • In Bed
  • II. Songs for sad girls
  • Wolf Song
  • Song for Sad Girls
  • Résumé
  • Telepathy
  • Small Talk
  • Ghosted
  • August
  • Winter Solstice
  • All Hallows
  • AlienMatch.com
  • To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
  • Ways of Being Lonely
  • Guitar
  • III. Confessional poetry
  • IV
  • People You Don't Know
  • Ex
  • The Truth
  • Archive of Recent Uncomfortable Emotions
  • The Miraculous
  • Arrival in Italy
  • Still Time
  • Happiness Report
  • I Can't Stop Loving You John Keats
  • Art of Poetry
  • Babies at Paradise Pond
  • Little Old Ladies
  • Death & Memory
  • Stay
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The cunning and taut lines in the irreverently funny latest from Addonizio (Mortal Trash) reveal a poet teetering on the edge of existential ennui. The collection opens with the humorous poem "Night in the Castle," in which an artist's grant has afforded the poet speaker palatial accommodations and she is carried away by grandiose flights of fancy: "I want to stay here & poison the king next/ I want to be a feared and beloved queen ordering up fresh linens &/ beheadings." Elsewhere, Addonizio responds to Walt Whitman's contention in "Song of Myself" that he might prefer to live among animals, declaring that animal life is probably not as idyllic as he imagines: "I know you like grass but it's no fun to be a pricey pre-hamburger/ ruminating with no TV." A true master of the bon mot, she declares in "Telepathy," "Men like to say they're not mind readers, but the ones I'm drawn to aren't/ readers at all." Several moments in these poems suggest a universal despair and loneliness that feels in keeping with the present moment, but Addonizio's incredible comedic timing and brilliance at subverting the reader's expectations ensures the mood is never too dark for long. These poems are brilliant reflections from the high priestess of the confessional. (Mar.)

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