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Overview“Is that something I should put in a poem?” asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. The resounding answer is yes! A chicken lives for eighteen months after its head is cut off. Tourists pose with an inflatable sex doll at the 9/11 memorial. A sex-reveal party starts a wildfire in a forest named for a conquistador. The author’s cancer treatments are intertwined with the rise of domestic fascism. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantz’s collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the center of the collection. All titled “Word of the Day,” these poems capture the disruption and disorder of our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in breathless, unpunctuated verse. “You can't carry water in a sentence,” says the author—but after reading this collection it just might seem possible. These poems depict the uncanny dissonance of living during and beyond events that feel world ending and remind us of the ways in which we carry our own traumas and the traumas of history with us in our daily lives. Life is all gilded frescoes and Arnold Palmers at the clubhouse until Titus and his men pass through with torches, until CortÉs and his men pass through with torches, until Sherman and his men and so on, until men forget what their hands looked like without torches. —Excerpt from “Ruin” Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nick LantzPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299347949ISBN 10: 029934794 Pages: 116 Publication Date: 31 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1 Ruin Poem on a Photo of a Reflection of a Bowl of Plastic Fruit A Bow, a Basket, a Cloud Poem Not Ending with a Phone Call The Rabbit Poem Not Ending with a Gesture After Aeschylus Poem Not Ending with U.S. Border Agents Tear-Gassing Migrant Children I Feel Like a Million $ Poem Not Ending with Francisco VÁzquez de Coronado The Three Types of Knowledge Poem Not Ending in a Shrug 2 Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day Word of the Day 3 Postoperative Poem Not Ending with the President’s Hands Upturned in an Expression of Unfathomable Indifference Poem Not Ending with Anesthesia Ode to the Dead of Bowling Green A Cloud Weighs over a Million Pounds Poem Not Ending with My Grandfather’s Will Photograph of My Wife Shaving My Head Mise en Abyme The Survivorship “Terrific,” “Tremendous,” “Loser,” “Tough,” “Smart,” “Weak,” “Dangerous,” “Great,” “Stupid,” “Classy,” “Big,” “Huge,” “Amazing,” “Lightweight,” “Win,” “Bad,” “Crooked,” “Moron,” “We,” “They,” “Zero” My Father, Singing Poem Not Ending with a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims An Urn for Ashes AcknowledgmentsReviews"""From the brilliant mind of Nick Lantz, this expansive collection thrives in dissonance, pinging from politics, climate, the pandemic, and cancer to pop culture and the small banalities of daily life in America. Both scathing and tender, always surprising, these poems ripped my heart out.""--Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding Head ""Lantz's poems struggle compellingly with the complicity and compartmentalizing of twenty-first-century middle-class American life. The paradox of cancer treatment--injecting poison to keep the patient alive--is a moving analog for this malaise: how much toxicity can we survive? Yet there is a profound tenderness throughout that refuses despair--this is what makes Lantz a brilliant poet of the Anthropocene.""--Nicky Beer, author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes" "“From the brilliant mind of Nick Lantz, this expansive collection thrives in dissonance, pinging from politics, climate, the pandemic, and cancer to pop culture and the small banalities of daily life in America. Both scathing and tender, always surprising, these poems ripped my heart out.”—Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding Head ""Lantz’s poems struggle compellingly with the complicity and compartmentalizing of twenty-first-century middle-class American life. The paradox of cancer treatment—injecting poison to keep the patient alive—is a moving analog for this malaise: how much toxicity can we survive? Yet there is a profound tenderness throughout that refuses despair—this is what makes Lantz a brilliant poet of the Anthropocene.”—Nicky Beer, author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes" Author InformationNick Lantz is the author of four previous books of poetry, including You, Beast (winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry) and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry). His poems have appeared in many journals as well as in the Best American Poetry anthology. He has won several awards, including the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lantz teaches in the MFA program at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas, with his wife and cats. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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