Description
A brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called exciting, necessary, and new.
Sleepers Awake, Oli Hazzards third collection, emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract the ore / from boredom, as memory personal, familial, social, historicaland the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space, and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting is here too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential.
The title, borrowed from the Lutheran hymn that inspired a Bach cantata, catches the books dreamy, kaleidoscopic, cross-temporal dialogues. By way of satirical, allusive, tender, hopeful poems, Sleepers Awake makes spaces for intimacy with the reader, arguing through an off-key melody / for the jovial texture of batshit relations, for the pleasure of live-drawing in skeptical company.
Author: Oli Hazzard
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780374616182
Language: English
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