The Now: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake news, multiple personalities, data economy, gene modification, and the rest of the exciting-and-yet-ominous "technology culture," even as it's a time when the urge to memorialize the past?to sing elegiacally?seems more important than ever. Between poems that consider the disappearance of language in an age of digital/binary communication, and poems that mourn the disappearance of fellow poets and artists, this collection attempts to stand on a nano-second that looks both backward and forward in time: the ever-shifting "now."

Author: Albert Goldbarth

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Publication Date: November 05, 2019

Number of Pages: 104 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0822965933

ISBN-13: 9780822965930