Imperfect Present: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Imperfect Present is a book for our current moment. By confronting the urgencies of daily life, from questions of identity to sexual abuse to racial unrest to the ubiquity of plastic, these poems investigate ways to sustain ourselves in our fraught public and private lives. With her characteristic linguistic play, Sharon Dolin illuminates some of the most personal concerns that resonate throughout our culture and in ourselves, such as error, despair, uncertainty, and doubt. In sections that deploy the lens of art, the "Oblique Strategies" of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, and meditations on dreams and spirituality, Imperfect Present provides a panoply of approaches that grapple with the complexity of now.

Author: Sharon Dolin

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Publication Date: Sep 06, 2022

Number of Pages: 88 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Poetry

ISBN-10: 0822966875

ISBN-13: 9780822966876