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experimental
exploratory
fatherhood
humanity
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lament
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questions of perception
relationship
softlaunch
surrealist
waste
what is knowable
Product details
- ISBN 9781632431561
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Poetic ballads that speak to a father’s quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse.
Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker’s attempt to forge a path through the world—both as a father and as an artist—and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an everyday existence dominated by an awareness of political and ecological collapse. Caught between the terror of wandering and the awe of witnessing new minds as they acquire early words and memories, the poems hold out hope for the tenuous transmission of meaning between generations.
Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker’s attempt to forge a path through the world—both as a father and as an artist—and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an everyday existence dominated by an awareness of political and ecological collapse. Caught between the terror of wandering and the awe of witnessing new minds as they acquire early words and memories, the poems hold out hope for the tenuous transmission of meaning between generations.
Cyrus Console is the author of Brief Under Water, The Odicy, and Romanian Notebook. He lives in Kansas City.
