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I Was Working
- Poems
Engelsk Paperback
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- Poems
Engelsk Paperback

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A remarkable book of poems that mixes humor about the absurdities of office life with moments of Zen-like wisdomSeeking to find a song of the self that can survive or even thrive amid the mundane routines of work, Ariel Yelen’s lyrics include wry reflections on the absurdities and abjection of being a poet who is also an office worker and commuter in New York. In the poems’ dialogues between labor and autonomy, the beeping of a microwave in the staff lounge becomes an opportunity for song, the poet writes from a cubicle as it is being sawed in half, and the speaker of the title poem decides “to quit everything except work,” sacrificing her life and loved ones to bury herself in her four jobs, striving at any cost to find relief from the attempt to both have a life and be a good worker—“No one was happy to see me, and so / at last I could work. No one said it’s okay. It wasn’t / okay, thus my work flourished.” Despite such discontents, I Was Working finds humor, play, and even joy in its original and compelling search for the possibility of self-liberation.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
80
ISBN-13:
9780691264066
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0691264066
Udg. Dato:
8 okt 2024
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 okt 2024
Forfatter(e):
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