"Cover artwork by Cate White ('The Traverse of Man,' 2012). Design and typesetting by Don't Look Now! Tcet set in Linotype Sabon (Jan Tschihold, 1967) and Berthold Formata (Bernd Möllenstädt, 1984). Books printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn."--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Early bird. Deadpan -- Undersong -- Where the Boys Are ; Sojourn (three obvious elegies) : In Search of Lost Time Lost Illusions A Sentimental Education ; Low life -- Late human -- Early bird.
Summary:
"Late Human is a collection of tragi-comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandel's 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism). The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century. Cracked children's rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirren's first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick. At the volume's center, three laments honor the 'realism / that would send anyone to spasm,' a sentiment that crests in the book's title poem before alighting, provisionally, in 'Early Bird'--its dawn chorus. "--Publisher's website, viewed July 28, 2021.
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