My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites

By S Brook Corfman and S. Brook Corfman

Book Overview

NAMED THE BEST POETRY OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting--that the ordinary would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isn't yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world. The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice (journaling) meets the associative power of the poem.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823289494
• ISBN13: 9780823289493
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.9"