She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more.Ĭombatting existential gloom with a wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and the madness of contemporary life. ![]() Kim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. From Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!Ī dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world.
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