Find Me When You're Ready: Poems
Autor Perry Janesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2024
In Find Me When You’re Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey from Detroit to Los Angeles. As he leaves home and forges toward California, the speaker in these poems considers how we learn and mislearn ideas about manhood, confronts the aftershocks of childhood sexual abuse, and questions the human need for belonging. By embracing the touchstones of youth—movies, lore, graphic novels—these poems assert the speaker’s defiant right to childhood even amid damage.
As the collection arcs toward adulthood, the speaker embodies a vision of healing that refuses easy binaries and embraces the joys of intimacy. Across each of its five acts, Perry Janes’s debut collection is driven by an interest troubling our creation myths, asking who built them, why we carry them, and how we might set them aside.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810147645
ISBN-10: 0810147645
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
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ISBN-10: 0810147645
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Notă biografică
PERRY JANES is a writer from metro Detroit who lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter. A Pushcart Prize recipient, his work appears in POETRY, Zyzzyva, ElectricLiterature, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere.
Cuprins
Backstory
Love Poem as Trojan Horse
Act One
Home Remedy
Ode to Hydrangeas Ending in Reflection on a Childhood Visit from the Emergency Home Nurse; or, Upon Learning That Certain Flowers Feed on Fertilizer Made from Human Remains
This Music
No matter how many times I pass
Insect Life in Michigan
Shooter
Palinode
The Problem with Metamorphosis
Killer of Sheep
Act Two
Creation Myth
Another Diorama, Tired as It Feels
Shrink!
Ode to My Mother’s Talent for Walking in on Any Movie During the Sex Scene;
or, Ruba’i for What Returns
Parable of the Mermaid
Police Interview as Two Knights of the Kingdom and a Rogue Answering Their Questions
“A Good Hurt”
Creation Myth
No Thanks
Act Three
You keep asking the question. We keep answering.
Act Four
On Leaving Detroit for Los Angeles
Ode to the Community Garden, Which Is Really Just a Vacant Lot Between Apartment Buildings; or, On Spending My Last Unemployment Check
“I treat my money like my side ho”
Ambition
To the Social Media Influencer in Line Ahead of Me at Starbucks
Google Knows Literally Everything About You – Here’s How to Delete That Data
Parable of the Golem
Ode to Xeriscaping; or, Regarding Austerity, I Find Devotion
Survival Guide for Great Indoorsmen
Spare Rib with Shiitake Slaw and Scallion Glaze
Act Five
Let loose at lunch, the boys imagine
Roast!
Manifesto with Honey and Bullets
Kink
Ars Poetica as Love Poem with Auto-Correct; or, Mission You
Uncorrected Error
Ode to Griffith Park; or, Every Tourist Attraction Gives Me Another Reason for Mistrust
Another Diorama, Revised
Palinode
The Cookout
Acknowledgments
Love Poem as Trojan Horse
Act One
Home Remedy
Ode to Hydrangeas Ending in Reflection on a Childhood Visit from the Emergency Home Nurse; or, Upon Learning That Certain Flowers Feed on Fertilizer Made from Human Remains
This Music
No matter how many times I pass
Insect Life in Michigan
Shooter
Palinode
The Problem with Metamorphosis
Killer of Sheep
Act Two
Creation Myth
Another Diorama, Tired as It Feels
Shrink!
Ode to My Mother’s Talent for Walking in on Any Movie During the Sex Scene;
or, Ruba’i for What Returns
Parable of the Mermaid
Police Interview as Two Knights of the Kingdom and a Rogue Answering Their Questions
“A Good Hurt”
Creation Myth
No Thanks
Act Three
You keep asking the question. We keep answering.
Act Four
On Leaving Detroit for Los Angeles
Ode to the Community Garden, Which Is Really Just a Vacant Lot Between Apartment Buildings; or, On Spending My Last Unemployment Check
“I treat my money like my side ho”
Ambition
To the Social Media Influencer in Line Ahead of Me at Starbucks
Google Knows Literally Everything About You – Here’s How to Delete That Data
Parable of the Golem
Ode to Xeriscaping; or, Regarding Austerity, I Find Devotion
Survival Guide for Great Indoorsmen
Spare Rib with Shiitake Slaw and Scallion Glaze
Act Five
Let loose at lunch, the boys imagine
Roast!
Manifesto with Honey and Bullets
Kink
Ars Poetica as Love Poem with Auto-Correct; or, Mission You
Uncorrected Error
Ode to Griffith Park; or, Every Tourist Attraction Gives Me Another Reason for Mistrust
Another Diorama, Revised
Palinode
The Cookout
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“In Perry Janes we have a powerful new voice in poetry. Now LA based, but coming out of metropolitan Detroit’s eclectic body of poets, Janes writes in all genres, but at long-last comes Find Me When You’re Ready, a stirring debut poetry collection divided into five acts. Janes displays, beneath the skill acquired over years of ‘doing the work,’ an unabashed earnestness that suggests an authentic need to say what cannot be easily told. As he notes, there are ‘so many / routes to the heart’s city.’ Janes writes as if through a prism—from several vantages. He compellingly repeats, insists, retracts, and iterates details of stories in an attempt not to get to the ‘what’ of an event, but the ‘who.’ To whom has this happened and who has this storyteller become? Janes is at the core a storyteller, and as any good storyteller knows, memory has its demands—Janes is determined to meet them. Read this bildungsroman and you will be inspired by Janes’s unsparing commitment to self-reclamation and hard-won joy.” —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
“If a book could be your best friend, could be the dreamt of gentle avenger who gets you through the hardest nights of childhood. If a book could let you know life is so hard, but just wait, and you will find a world where even the pain you endured will find a way to blossom into deep health, into the deeply generative erotic. If a book could say: yes, the city is burning, the world is burning, some wounds never heal: but look at all your beloveds assembling. If a book could go back in time and teach me how to become an adult and carry my losses and make a world of extraordinary beauty that never says those losses didn’t happen? God, that book would be this book. Find Me When You’re Ready. I have been waiting my whole life.” —Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic
"Find Me When You’re Ready, in its imaginative daring and unabashed boldness, is both a testimony to the inescapable hold of memory and place as well as an interrogation about selfhood. Janes’s writing is filled with lyrical splendor, reflection, and attention to detail; this was a joy to read.” —Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus
"Oh boy. This book. Perry Janes. Goddamnit. Thank you. Find Me When You’re Ready is a lyric confrontation with the kind of boyhood meant to keep you quiet. My Midwestern heart. My survivor-seen heart. Our hearts that are still, despite it all, our hearts. This book. This intimate debut collection has poems that sear and devastate, but also poems that play and beckon tenderness. Yes, somehow, tenderness. Here it comes! Get ready!" —Hieu Minh Nguyen, author of Not Here: Poems
“If a book could be your best friend, could be the dreamt of gentle avenger who gets you through the hardest nights of childhood. If a book could let you know life is so hard, but just wait, and you will find a world where even the pain you endured will find a way to blossom into deep health, into the deeply generative erotic. If a book could say: yes, the city is burning, the world is burning, some wounds never heal: but look at all your beloveds assembling. If a book could go back in time and teach me how to become an adult and carry my losses and make a world of extraordinary beauty that never says those losses didn’t happen? God, that book would be this book. Find Me When You’re Ready. I have been waiting my whole life.” —Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic
"Find Me When You’re Ready, in its imaginative daring and unabashed boldness, is both a testimony to the inescapable hold of memory and place as well as an interrogation about selfhood. Janes’s writing is filled with lyrical splendor, reflection, and attention to detail; this was a joy to read.” —Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus
"Oh boy. This book. Perry Janes. Goddamnit. Thank you. Find Me When You’re Ready is a lyric confrontation with the kind of boyhood meant to keep you quiet. My Midwestern heart. My survivor-seen heart. Our hearts that are still, despite it all, our hearts. This book. This intimate debut collection has poems that sear and devastate, but also poems that play and beckon tenderness. Yes, somehow, tenderness. Here it comes! Get ready!" —Hieu Minh Nguyen, author of Not Here: Poems
Descriere
A lyric coming-of-age journey that sweeps from Detroit to Los Angeles, Find Me When You’re Ready interrogates the myths we carry and explores how we can set them aside.