I Am Not Young And I Will Die With This Car In My Garage by Blake Z. Rong

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I Am Not Young And I Will Die With This Car In My Garage by Blake Z. RongThe speakers in Blake Z. Rong's gorgeous debut, I Am Not Young and Will Die with This Car in My Garage, inhabit a world emptied of people but haunted by distorted memories of human contact. As Rong writes, "The city becomes human in its unraveling." This is a poetry of place; the poems span the globe Singapore, Miami, New York and Dalian but each place just reminds the reader of what's missing. Can poetry fill the loss? Read and find out. Joanna

Breathe in: ‘black eggs

In this book

Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet

Often the speaker finds that what at first appeared to be caring was insincere all along

which was named one of 2014’s ten best books of poetry by Poets & Writers and hailed as a “groundbreaking first book that stands to influence its author’s generation” by Boston Review

but in this brilliant new collection

the focus on love

and the question of human identity

“In these intensely felt and exquisitely wrought poems

earlier versions of the poem’s sections as they were first published in periodicals and anthologies during the years 1927–1930

as often said

branded a noble failure by a few influential critics― a charge that became conventional wisdom―this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the finest achievements of twentieth-century American poetry

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