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A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic.Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famin...

Tom Sleigh's brilliant new collection is "full of the wonder and eloquence driving profound poetry" (Los Angeles Times)You've got to put your pants on in the house of fact.And in the house of fact, when you take off your shirt, you can hear your shirt cry out, Facts are the floor, factsare how you make the right side talk to the left.I'm washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity.I'm turning around, trying to see the filthinesstha...

Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront itTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as "a sort of Rambo Jr." With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land b...

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The first book of inventive prose by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney)"I: What do the dead think about, anyway?G: For me, it's questions of realism, I mean what's more real than the body once you don't have one?" --from "Interview with a Ghost" In "Interview with a Ghost, " poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from his conviction that "while art and life are sepa...

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Over by the cemetery next to the CP you could see them in wild catmint going crazy: I watched them roll and wriggle, paw it, lick it, chew it, leap about, pink tongues stuck out, drooling. "--from "Army Cats" Tom Sleigh's poetry swerves dramatically from the ordinary moment to the onrush of emergency or to the elusive past or to the unexpectedly comic. In "Army Cats, " Sleigh confronts the more feral aspects of war, journalism, art, and se...

The AK wants to tell a different truth-a truth ungarbled that is so obviousno one could possibly mistake its meaning. If you look down the cyclops-eye of the barrelwhat you'll see is a boy with trousersrolled above his ankles. You'll see a mouth of bone moving in syllablesthat have the rapid-fire clarityof a weapon that can fire 600 rounds a minute. -from "Oracle"Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also the p...

AcknowledgmentsInvocation Lamentation on Ur The Word The Tank Child's Drawing: "Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral" In the ParkThe Safety of SundayUnder the Mountain The Line Song Crossing the Border The Denial Terminus The AppointmentThe Death Radio Great Island The Dolphin's Dream For a Young Painter The Octopus The Library Shame A Western Eclipse The Perspective Some Larger MotionThe Canoe The Climb The Distance Between The Web The Work The Souls

Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imagination's limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our current American realities of empire, state violence, the endless "crisis chatter" of talking heads, and the eerie, weightless feeling of catastrophe, they are tethered to the gravitational pull of love and hope. In Sleigh's poems, rocket engines a...

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Widely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his fifth collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship, mixing the streetwise edginess of popular culture with Greek and Latin references, myth, and dramatic lyrics. Passionately comprehensive in its understanding of contemporary reality, Far Side of the Earth is unique in its moral gravitas, consolatory power, and strangeness of vision.

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