The new economy
Book - 2025
"A series of cisterns undulating through love, grief, and time. A world of "Miss You" poems opening a portal to all those we've lost and would love to visit for a while. A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. In Gabrielle Calvocoressi's latest collection, The New Economy, poems are haunted by the ghosts of loved ones and childhood memories, by changing landscapes and bodies. Calvocoressi's own figure is examined--investigating the desire to protect the body one is born with and the longing to have been born in another. Lyrical and unafraid, The New Economy invites us to name our fears and sorrows, to write to who or what has left us, to create practices that can hold both the da...rkness and light of this (in)finite life. "--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Copper Canyon Press
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xiii, 125 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781556597213
- Hammond B-3 Organ Cistern
- Affirmation Cistern When I Let Go of My Fear My Life Becomes Magical
- I Was Supposed To Cistern: Redbud Variation
- Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you
- Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion
- Karma Affirmation Cistern Don't Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror
- Light Body Cistern Be Gone from the Place You Almost Destroyed
- Reawakening Cistern: Recovering the Golden Thread
- Light Body Cistern Eyehole Pendulum Return
- Maternal Cistern Long Cold Lonely Winter Little Walk
- Penal Cistern Lightning Throne
- Penal Cistern Lightning Throne Lightning Rebounded
- Snow Day Cistern
- Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel
- Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu that we love
- What When the Ancestors Turn from Us
- Mayflower Cistern I Feel My Pilgrim Worry
- Neighbor Reckoner Cistern Michael Comes to Help
- The Year I Didn't Kill Myself Cistern
- Bringing the bees
- Michael When You Left I Heard Three Shots
- Nobility Cistern We Have Stalwart Friend
- Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones
- Miss you. Would like to shoot some hoops with you
- Jessye Norman Cistern Time to Dress for Fall
- My Perimenopausal Body Cistern Disappointing How Surprising
- Lent Cisterns: Could I Ever Write a Poem Again After These Years of Bleeding These Years of Mourning?
- 1. Ash Wednesday
- 2. Let My Story Fall Away Behind Me
- 3. Light Steeples Ice
- 4. Winter Nocturne
- 5. After the Party
- 6. "Write the Best Thing That's Happened Today"
- 7/8. From Saint Mary's
- 9. (of the eyes) be affected by a bright light:
- 10. "Did you hear the news out of Tennessee out of North Carolina out of"
- 11. (of the eyes) be affected by a bright light: 9:28 p.m.: too far gone even for autocorrect Nystagmus Variation
- 12. The Well the Reel
- 13. Hawk Song Cistern
- 14. "Write the Best Thing That's Happened Today"
- 15. Wild Strawberries Far as the Eye Can See
- 16. After Fred Wah's Pickerels After Puncturing My Eardrum on the Plane
- 17. Jessye Norman Shun Lee Palace Variation
- 18. (of a bright light) blind (a person) temporarily:
- 19. Wildflowers on the ground, bears and wolves in the hills
- 20. "What brought me the most pleasure today?"
- 21. Ring
- 22. Occoneechee Speedway Hearing the Layers
- 23. Muffled Chime
- 24. Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 25. Mill Cistern Wheel Returning
- 26. Just the Facts Practice: Sunday Night
- 27. Wind in the Ear
- 28. An Inn for the Coven
- 29. River Light Walk Across the River
- 30. Harbor O Pioneers
- 31. One Bright Room
- 32. No Poems Today
- 33. All My Friends, Assemble!
- 34. Miss you
- 35. Moss Ear Writing Date with Ezra
- 36. "What. Already?"
- 37. Three Months out from Fibroid Surgery the Best Thing That Happened Today
- 38. Path
- 39. Forgiveness I Am Trying
- 40. Estate
- Good Friday
- Holy Saturday (of the eyes) be affected by a bright ligh:
- 41. Every Day but Sunday
- 42. Every Day but Sunday
- 43. Every Day but Sunday
- 44. Every Day but Sunday
- 45. Every Day but Sunday
- 46. Every Day but Sunday
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author