Description

Winter Editions, paperback

Publication Date: November 19, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilberts sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.The Everyday Life of Designopens wide to the world in a variety of styles and voices. Ranging fast and low across current social, physical, and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible, these poems inhabit precarious spaces while also seeking to elude them. Building on the legacies of Walt WhitmansLeaves of Grass, Anne WaldmansIovis Trilogy, and Brenda Hillmans tetralogy for the four elements, Gilberts project grows over time with additional poems, rearrangements, and revisions. The present 300+ page volume represents the second revised and expanded iteration of Gilberts ongoing magnum opus.