The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections)

The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections)
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"The poems of Landau's stunning second collection are dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful....Landau's abandon is thrilling in the way danger always is...."
(Publisher's Weekly - Starred Review)
It is "always nighttime" in The Last Usable Hour--a series of linked lyric sequences set in a midwinter New York City. At the heart of Deborah Landau's second collection are epistolary love poems to an elusive "someone." Here is a haunted singing voice, clear and spare, alone in the dark, alive with memory and desire yet hounded by premonitions of a calamitous future. The speaker of this "ghost book" is lucid and passionate, even as everything is disappearing--the streets deserted, the beloveds gone.

Â Â Â Â Â forgive me for not sleeping
Â Â Â Â Â this city is all spinningÂ Â all sky

Â Â Â Â Â this city is dry and the people all wanting
Â Â Â Â Â each with a coin purseÂ Â each with a thirst in her mouth

Â Â Â Â dear someoneÂ Â I put a shimmer on for you
Â Â Â Â tonight I am all sequinsÂ Â all lies

"Landau beautifully chronicles this saga of emptiness and loss that plays out against the luminous backdrop of the nocturnal City."Â -- John Ashbery

"In this heartbroken yet rough-as-a-just-cut-gem sequence, which takes despair and twirls it in all senses to try and make it spill its cheap undying trick, pain flirts, hysteria is an eros, taffeta begs to be worn as if an outer lining of the soul. The speaker of The Last Usable Hour begs you to use it, every instant of itÂ -- urgent, confessing to imaginary crimes, wide awake to the one metaphysical joke, the one at our unique expense; and in a swirl of pain, desire, nasty gods, and sheer pluck, the protagonist of this bold book does just that." --- Jorie Graham
Country USA
Brand Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer Copper Canyon Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781556593345
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer	Copper Canyon Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781556593345
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections)

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