The Arsonist's Letters

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Neuware - Comprised of poetry written over the course of more than two decades, Michael Tyrell's The Arsonist's Letters reckons with a radically changing landscape, where 'infestations of coincidence' overlap with 'reflective / tricks and rungless ladders,' and increased surveillance meets the threat of looming extinction. Throughout, memorable historical and contemporary figures emerge: a cousin mistaken for the abducted Lindbergh child; a boy who must make a bargain to keep from starving in Mussolini's Italy; 'children [.] / who swear live inside them /the entire populations of small countries.' Including moving elegies for a dying mother and poems that puzzle over difficult family secrets, the collection also stands as a paean to correspondence itself, celebrating not only the near-lost art of letter writing but the spiritual necessity of the written message: 'You carry an unsent card in your coat like immunity papers/ from one ruined place to another / where it is, at least, somehow, / always spring.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781954780170

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Michael Tyrell is the author of The Wanted (National Poetry Review, 2012) and Phantom Laundry (Backlash, 2017) and, with Julia SpicherKasdorf, edited Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Agni, The Best American Poetry, The IowaReview, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and many other publications. A native of Brooklyn, he teaches at New York University.