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OverviewIn Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining. Taken from a bar of the same name in New York City, Lovers of Today is a collection of poetry that pays tribute to friendships including Kevin Killian, John Ashbery, Joanne Kyger, and Bill Berkson, among others, wherein each poem is a celebration of life’s ephemerality. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Garrett CaplesPublisher: Wave Books Imprint: Wave Books ISBN: 9781950268443ISBN 10: 1950268446 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 18 November 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Lovers of Today Harbin Maxims Sundial Tone Travels in Russia Warm Life Antinostalgia Emotional Rescue Willie Alexander For David Meltzer Hairy Sniff John Ashbery and Climate Change Barking at Horses Paris with Suzanne How to Buy Weed in Paris A Wreath of Smoke The Comeshots; or, Variations on a Theme by Gerrit Lansing Names of the Turtle Huile Étude Impossible You My Lip Filler Journey Note on the Interior of the Cathedral at Nightfall Swan Feet Unstated Nights Texas Christian Sonnet White Fragility A Door. A Stone Quentin Crisp Poem for Ceels “Étage Zéro” Gone Viral Plague Journal Love in the Time of No Gods Soul BookReviewsCaples (Complications) fills his newest collection with musicality and pathos, anchoring his playful language with ardent longing. Just like great power ballads, these poems are maudlin yet still authentically moving...A love song to Oakland, to idols, and to love itself, Caples's raucous, tender, and tuneful collection lives up to its title.--Publishers Weekly Caples supplies us with a full aesthetic meal, with alarming images right out of the French Surrealists. He also means what he says; regardless of any implications to the contrary, Caples is writing out of emotion, even well-done sentiment. --Max Winter, Rain Taxi With a supply of thumbnail biographies that read like the most improbable fiction, and a leisurely but learned style, Caples makes the minor seem major. --Ed Park, The Poetry Foundation Caples (Complications) fills his newest collection with musicality and pathos, anchoring his playful language with ardent longing. Just like great power ballads, these poems are maudlin yet still authentically moving...A love song to Oakland, to idols, and to love itself, Caples's raucous, tender, and tuneful collection lives up to its title.--Publishers Weekly Caples supplies us with a full aesthetic meal, with alarming images right out of the French Surrealists. He also means what he says; regardless of any implications to the contrary, Caples is writing out of emotion, even well-done sentiment. --Max Winter, Rain Taxi With a supply of thumbnail biographies that read like the most improbable fiction, and a leisurely but learned style, Caples makes the minor seem major. --Ed Park, The Poetry Foundation Author InformationGarrett Caples is the author of three previous poetry books, Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016), Complications (2007), and The Garrett Caples Reader (1999), a collection of outtakes, The Rise & Fall of Johnny Volume (2020), and a bilingual selection, Noches Apátridas (Unstated Nights, 2019). He’s also written a book of essays, Retrievals (2014), and a pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He’s the editor of Philip Lamantia’s Preserving Fire: Selected Prose (2018), Samuel Greenberg’s Poems from the Greenberg MSS (2019), and Michael McClure’s Mule Kick Blues and Last Poems (2021), as well as the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013), Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore, Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima, and Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader (2019). He is an editor at City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series. He has a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in San Francisco. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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