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A Year in the New Life - by Jack Underwood (Paperback)

A Year in the New Life - by  Jack Underwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This new book of poems finds fresh ways of navigating a time of continual surprise and uncertainty.</b> <p/> Jack Underwood's debut collection, <i>Happiness</i> (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (<i>Guardian</i>). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and current riots; the limits of masculinity and complexities of fatherhood; as well as uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class. Throughout, incongruous and domestic subjects re-align in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, all presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jack Underwood's poems are exceptional in how they surrender to their own music, each one a kind of expertly controlled free-fall. In this tough and tender time, we need these poems of tenderness, of toughness, and of time." -- <b>Natalie Shapero</b><p><b><br></b></p><p>"The glorious abundance of Jack's wayward absurdism and imagism creates intellectual plot-points felt like dreams, a way to think about logic in a different way, a way to think about things and people and life in a different way, which is the intention of poetry." -- <b>Rachael Allen</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>"Jack Underwood demonstrates in <i>A Year in the New Life</i> that he's one of the most innovative imagists and thinkers writing in the English language." -- <b>Anthony Anaxagorou</b></p><br>

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