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Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directional teaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring—and often exploding—its most sacred memes. Diane Raptosh writes for lovers of poetry, books, words, mountains, and people who are worried about the world.
Diane Raptosh's American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry. Recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Raptosh was Boise's Poet Laureate (2013) and serves as Idaho's Writer-in-Residence (2013–2016).
Sign Twirler’s Guide to the Multiverse
The Hidden Lives of Human Signs
Sign Twirler Stands Like Michelangelo’s Man in a Circle
Digital Billboard with Fidgeting Images
Of Genders and Genres
Interspace
Husband
Traffic Circle
The Three-Body Problem
Your Attention, Please
Rugged Western Individualism in 3D Display
At the Symposium on the Necessity of Beauty
Enter the Kingdom
Gliding into the Blur
Junction
The Inner Coat
Ballroom-Dance with a Sign in Order to Point It in the Right Direction
Sign Twirler Balances Six Rectangles at Once
II The Way to Green Air
Views from a Former Contortionist
Written in Squid Ink on a 48-Inch Talon/Bird Claw
From Staple to Symbol
Motherhood as Momentary Characteristic
Intersectional
Ghost Sign
Broadsheet from the Family Bed
Scrolling Light Box with the 12 O’Clock News
Sign Twirler Crunches Some Numbers
Step on a Crack, You Break
Ours is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope
Human Arrow with Necks of Trilliums
Direction Versus Bearing
Poster in Present Perfect Continuous Negative Tense
Light Wind Lifts Language’s Dress Up
We Need a Case for Doing Good in Minute Particulars
Clean Garage Rag
Fire Sign
III Ninety-Degree Angle to the Chest
The Hope of Sound
Fifth and State
Experiment on Backs of Soup Labels
[ ] Is a Sign That Means Hug for the Horse Forequarters of the Hippocampus
True Life is Lived When Tiny Changes Occur, Says Tolstoy
Art Must be Useful to the People
A Sign Said There Are 16 Million Eyes in the City
What Wittgenstein’s College Friend Frank Says
Directional Dressed as the Statue of Liberty
I Jump and Think Like an Endurance Athlete
Alternative Employment
Straight Direction Along a Great Circle
Department of Space Studies
World Upside-Down
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