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Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
We can’t stop reading the poem from which the book’s title originates. “Small Talk” is precise in its language and, through some key words, dropped in like breadcrumbs on a trail, brings us to the heart of the message. No spoiler alerts here. Addonizio’s poems create moments that you will remember, and often realize are all too familiar. Her poems are like the first beverage of the day — pick the beverage depending on the time you wake up.
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. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate chan...