Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. In 'the steady ache of language' a picaresque (askew and bemused) I seeks ways of enlarging awareness and acceptance. How do I rise to life's ongoing occasion? How do I see the other fully? How can I find my way to the largest vision? HUMAN-CARRYING FLIGHT TECHNOLOGY offers a rich, complicated, original and vivid collection of responses to these questions--open-ended and exciting poems. Inviting us to come with him on a necessary and strange trip, mapping the unsteady space of memory and desire with unusual intensity, Shipman's work switches on the 'whisper burner' to lift us up where the heart's exquisite unreliability makes other worlds shimmer over and within our own.--Laura Mullen
There is a deep sadness in Christopher Shipman that needs poems the way a carnivore needs meat. He makes poems to feed his sadness, to appease insistent hunger. He's become a skilled cook of these soul-meals.--Andrei Codrescu
