This Connection of Everyone with Lungs Poems [Paperback]

Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems ofThis Connection of Everyone with Lungswrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back againtouching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between your sheets, under your skin.

Juliana Spahris a poet, critic, and editor. Among her books of poems areFuck YouAlohaI Love YouandResponse, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She coedits the international arts journalChainwith Jena Osman.

Acknowledgments

Poem Written after September 11, 2001
Poem Written from November 30, 2002, to March 27, 2003

In a time of war, dirty air, missile worship when all oracles seem silenced, from every eco-lyric pore these fine auroras ofThis Connection of Everyone With Lungshave been streaming. Registering 9/11 as cellular rupture, this is a work of full globality which redeems our time, makes us remember all that poetry is capable of as form, frame, syntax linking air, earth, lung; what Emerson meant by lyric language as nothing less than externalization of planet's soul. Rob Wilson, author ofWaking in Seoul

By listing, by naming, the atrocitiesthe harrowing stats, the scary particularsin our world-at-endless-warwe might at least exert control over our sanity and extend our mind and compassion to others. It is a connected universe as Spahr so forcefully and powerfully reminds us.This Connection of Everyone with Lungsis a sustained and anaphoric meditation, a catharsis for our predicament. Annlãž