Someday the plan of a town Poems
Book - 2022
"In 2018, acclaimed poet Todd Boss sold his belongings and began to circle the globe in a series of consecutive housesits. Reeling from marital, parental, and societal losses, Boss risks everything to be at one with the world. These poems conjure Spanish dust, English rain, French moss, Arizona cliffs, and Hungarian light, ringing all the while with timeless humor and wisdom. As much a commentary on modern-day America as a personal history replete with grief, Someday the Plan of a Town is a sensual, intellectual, and arrestingly musical map of one nomadic troubadour's journey to self"--
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 100 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780393881400
- Where You've Been
- Someday the Plan of a Town
- He Divides His Time Between
- In Elaborate Museums
- Essentials
- Golds Within
- The Wobbling, Body-Long Bubble of Concern
- The One About the Taxi
- The Mind Will Wander
- Everything I Have Has Humps and Hooves
- I Know You Feel You're the Wyeth Girl and that the Farmhouse Yonder
- Workmen Discarding a Parquet Floor, Vienna
- Why Empty Barber Shops Draw Me, I Don't Know
- When the Sommelier Farts
- The Keenest Blade
- Be Glad Your Parents Fucked
- At the Sofitel
- A Shrug of Boys
- The Sculptor Made a Giant of the Boy
- Parenting You
- Runaway Bus
- Nine Voices at St. Martin's
- Fairer
- If You're Not Doing Her Sheets
- Temp
- A Man Pulls a Sweater Over His Shirt
- Men, Then, Maybe
- My Book Open on Top of His
- As If a Mighty Fleet
- She's Going to Be Beautiful
- Down Below the Mill Bace
- An Ocean for Iowa
- If, as They Say, the Soul
- Tracers
- Risk Not One
- Always That Last Trip to the Airport
- In the Verbena, the Bees.