15 Ways to Stay Alive by Daphne Gottlieb

By Daphne Gottlieb

Broken hearts, scattered goals, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and move in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb’s most recent selection of startling new works that discover survival after own or communal failures and the renewal that follows. no matter if she’s writing approximately unanticipated results (“After the halfway journey Collapsed”), her mother’s passing (“Somewhere, Over”), or absurd events (“Preoccupation”), Gottlieb’s deeply own insights into the advanced parts the place lifestyles and modern tradition collide provide readers a distinct, thought-provoking perspective.

"I Have constantly harassed hope with Apocalypse"

We met over a small
earthquake. Now, my knees

shake whenever
you come around

and I’ve spotted your hand
has a moderate tremor.

Daphne Gottlieb is the award-winning writer of 7 books together with the significantly acclaimed poetry assortment Final Girl (Soft cranium Press) and the picture novel Jokes and the Unconscious (Cleis Press), illustrated through Diane DiMassa. Gottlieb has played and taught inventive writing workshops through the usa. She acquired her MFA from turbines university, and presently is living in San Francisco.

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