Alli Warren’s I Love It Though looks hard at the material and affective world we’ve inherited, including the ordinariness of the sublime and the sublimity and transcendence of what’s most ordinary. This book makes meaning of our contemporary moment, both sharp and vulnerable, concrete and musical. These poems are committed to living in the present, delirious with outrage and hope for something better.
Price: $15.95
Pages: 114
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Imprint: Nightboat Books
Publication Date:
07 March 2017
Trim Size: 6.75 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781937658601
Format: Paperback
“These poems invite the reader into an uncanny immersion within the quotidian—akin to tasting the sharpness of sky color or watching song penetrate office walls.”—
Jamie Townsend, The Boston Review's Summer Reading List“Warren directs her aptitude for rhyme and aural texture to conveying the shape and expression of human desire ('we have nothing/ between gasps/ of great need'), as well as the political structures that have evolved through these hungers: given the tendency of borders to 'burst open under their/ propensity for feasting,' Warren encourages readers to 'embrace your finitude/ as the end of accumulation.'”—Publishers Weekly
"Among the wildness of sources, the syncopation found in I Love it Though is uniquely Warren’s own and which is in vivid relation to the English language lyric and metaphysical poetic."—Kimberly Lyons, Blazing Stadium
ALLI WARREN’s most recent publications include Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On and Here Come the Warm Jets, winner of the Poetry Center Book Award. She published Dreamboat magazine, cocurated the (New) Reading Series, and coedited the Poetic Labor Project. She has lived in the Bay Area since 2005.
