(Paperback - English - 9780802147714)
The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake different streets --and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir) , as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice --here, in Evolution , we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts--like nobody else--the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution , with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem: Something br unearthly br about br today br sobuy br a Diet Coke & br a newspaper b ..