The Book of Falling - Softcover

McCooey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0645536970 ISBN 13: 9780645536973

Publisher: Upswell Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

The Book of Falling circles around a thematic focus of falling: falling in love, falling from grace, and exploring fallen worlds in an age marked by calamity.

To fall is to be human. We fall in love, fall asleep, and fall from grace. And in this epoch that we have called the Anthropocene, we are witnessing nothing less than the fall of nature.

This extraordinary collection, the fifth by the prize-winning poet David McCooey, covers the full tragicomic spectrum of falling: from pratfalls to tragic demises, from accident-prone parents to ruinous celebrities.

Within its unifying thematic focus, The Book of Falling is tonally and formally diverse, attending with great artistry to the calamities and absurdities of history and the contemporary world. The collection comprises of satires and elegies, inventive poetic autofictions and biofictions, and innovative photopoems, employing found photos and photographs by the author. This is a collection that welcomes its readers, even as it plunges them into new ways of understanding the beautiful, fallen worlds that we inhabit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Upswell Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0645536970
• ISBN 13: 9780645536973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112