Human Hours: Poems by Barnett, Catherine

Human Hours: Poems

Winner of the Believer Book AwardThe triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the...
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Author: Catherine Barnett
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Human Hours: Poems by Barnett, Catherine

Human Hours: Poems

$36.25

Human Hours: Poems

$36.25
Author: Catherine Barnett
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the Believer Book Award

The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award

Catherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are "accursed," that are limited--and unanswered--by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow--or at least measure--time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover's breaths; by remembering a father's space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.



Author: Catherine Barnett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.60w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781555978143


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/16/2018

About the Author
Catherine Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes. She has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.


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