III. Beside Our Breaths -- Meditation on Impermanence. We're This and We're That, Aren't We? -- Depths of Despair -- Hurry Up Schedule -- It's Only Vanishing Cream -- Woman on Fire -- S.S. Nevertheless -- Decibel House -- History Kids -- These Are Brave Days -- Thinking the Same -- Falling but Frozen -- Historical Dust -- A Life that Doubles-Back on Itself -- Water Soluble Dreams -- Those of Us Who Have Double Parked -- Varieties of Internal Torment -- Hello I Must Be Going -- Uncertain Frontier -- Century Sickness -- Made in California -- II. The Silent Docent -- Landscape with Pink Tulips Distorted by Dread -- Landscape with Active Shooter Cutting through a National Park -- Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking -- Landscape with American Sycamore and the Severed Heads of Bees -- Landscape with Blurred Figures Running toward the Vanishing Point -- Landscape with Pumpjacks Overtaken by Vines -- Landscape with Protesters on One Side, Police on the Other, a Pasture in Between -- Landscape with Abandoned Picnic and Flames -- Landscape with Doctor Taking a Breather -- Landscape with Cheetah Going Seventy in the Serengeti -- Still Life (2020) -- III. Beside Our Breaths -- Jean-Michel Basquiat's Bones -- Ai Weiwei's Middle Finger -- Marina Abramović's Gaze -- Meditation on Impermanence.
Summary:
"Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art, in particular the work of artist Ed Ruscha. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined within it. Hello I Must Be Going pulses with originality. This is a book of our time, and of time itself--of unrest, loss, grief, and 'this endless parade / shimmering toward silence"-- Provided by publisher.
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