Swan Hammer: An Instructor’s Guide to Mirrors (Wheelbarrow Books) - Softcover

Maggie Graber (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611864313 ISBN 13: 9781611864311

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This collection chronicles coming of age as a queer millennial in a twenty-first century America defined by the internet, climate crisis, and a growing disconnection that the poems within work to resist. Here, everyone and everything serves as a potential reflection for something larger than the poet can understand: an unknown debit card thief, the cartoon teacher Ms. Frizzle, The Weather Channel, an RV park, a dead poet. These poems seek to make something of the spaces between and reach toward a sense of the ecstatic just beyond. They are poems of imagination and vision that strive to look rather than look away, that attempt to capture a nebulous feeling before it is gone for good. Swan Hammer is an instructor’s guide to connection-making, of seeing and then seeing again, in ways that have been redefined in the age of the internet. Here is one poet’s wandering relationship to their own sense of what it is to be alive and queer at a time when there is so much on the brink of disappearing—and what a queer experience it is.

About this title

About the Author

MAGGIE GRABER is a queer millennial poet from the Great Lakes. She is a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a certified Wilderness First Responder. She currently serves as poetry editor for Yalobusha Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611864313
• ISBN 13: 9781611864311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108