Wilder: Poems by Wahmanholm, Claire

Wilder: Poems

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY"After the explosion: the longest night."In Wilder--selected by Rick...
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Wilder: Poems by Wahmanholm, Claire

Wilder: Poems

CHF 21.23

Wilder: Poems

CHF 21.23
Author: Claire Wahmanholm
Format: Paperback
Language: English

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

"After the explosion: the longest night."

In Wilder--selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the alphabet spells out disaster and devours children. Here plate tectonics birth a misery rift, spinning loved ones away from each other across an uncaring sea. And here the cosmos--and Cosmos, as Carl Sagan's hopeful words are fissured by erasure--yawns wide.

Wilder is grimly visceral but also darkly sly; it paints its world in shades of neon and rust, and its apocalypse in language that runs both sublime and matter-of-fact. "Some of us didn't have lungs left," writes Wahmanholm. "So when we lay beneath the loudspeaker sky--when we were told to pay attention to our breath--we had to improvise." The result is a debut collection that both beguiles and wounds, whose sky is "black at noon, black in the afternoon."



Author: Claire Wahmanholm
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 11/13/2018
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781571315069


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2018

About the Author
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Night Vision, winner of the 2017 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in Paperbag, PANK, Saltfront, Waxwing, Bennington Review, The Collapsar, Newfound, New Poetry from the Midwest 2017, 32 Poems, Best New Poets 2015, Memorious, The Journal, and Kenyon Review Online. Her second collection, Redmouth, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2019. She lives and teaches in the Twin Cities.

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