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Graham, Jorie, 1950-

To 2040 / Jorie Graham.

First edition.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023]

95 pages ; 24 cm

"Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040, opens in a question punctuated as fact: "Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map." In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant that "the American experiment will end in 2030." Graham shows us multiple potential futures--soundtracked by sirens among the ruins, contemplating the loss of those species who inhabited them and those who named them."-- Author's website.

Are we -- On the last day -- I -- I am still -- Translation rain -- To 2040 -- They ask me -- Dusk in drought -- Dis- -- I catch sight of the now -- Day -- In reality -- Can you -- The VR -- Cage -- Time frame -- Fog -- Why -- This vase of quince branches you sent me -- The quiet -- Dawn 2040 -- Then the rain.

Poetry.

Poetry.

2000-2099

Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry, Modern.

To twenty-forty

To two thousand forty

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