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Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis.
Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon-all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, "developing a cryptography to a century / to which we are not invited."In this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor.
At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved.
Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: "We begin to consider other planets - / Will they have us?" In a long piece titled "Book of Revelation," the speaker dreams that "below the bed / is an encyclopedia of lost things," a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye.
Powell turns to astronomy, Alice in Wonderland, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:102 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
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- ISBN:9781531500856
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:102 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781531500856
