Spilled and Gone: Poems

By Jessica Greenbaum

Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum's third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as "the ocean on a shiny day," and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson's herbarium "might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists." At heart, the poems themselves seek peace through close observation's associative power to reveal cohering relationships and meaning within the 21st century-and during its dark turn. In the everyday tally of "the good against the violence" the speaker asks, "why can't the line around the block on the free night/ at the museum stand for everything, why can't the shriek /of the girls in summer waves . . . / be the call and response of all people living on the earth?" A descendant of the New York school and the second wave, Greenbaum "spills" details that she simultaneously replaces-through the spiraling revelations only poems with an authentic life-force of humanism can nurture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965720
• ISBN13: 9780822965725
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"