Garage: Poems (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Fagan, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844713458 ISBN 13: 9781844713455

Publisher: Salt, 2007

Synopsis

Aaron Fagan’s debut collection glitters with contemporary life, from poems on love, travel, cartoons and shopping, sitting alongside lyrics on channel surfing, philosophy and God. Gathering together work from over a decade of writing, Fagan takes us on tour through his metaphoric Garage, the title signaling his musical forbears in punk and electronic music. On our way, through improvisations, trials and errors, we join him in a world where invention and failure are indistinguishable parts of the journey, and Fagan makes the ideal companion, in love with the world and its characters, filled with hope and humor.

About this title

About the Author

Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. Poems of his have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Boulevard, 5AM, Living Forge, Salt, Shenandoah, Stand, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He lives in the Bronx.

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Making Light

The gum on my left shoe as I walk

Across the carpet makes a sound

Close to little spits of radio static.

And the tug it gives my leg lets me

Know I am aware of my walking,

Lets me know I know where I am –

I am in my life, and in the library.

This is a rarity for me and I let

The rarity of it in, jog my memory,

And allow myself to wonder where

I was the last time this happened

And am I free enough to smile.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salt
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844713458
• ISBN 13: 9781844713455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76