Ugly Time

Ugly Time

Paperback (01 Mar 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Poetry. Sarah Galvin is here, she's queer, and she would like to talk about something else for a moment! After taking a break from poetry to write The Best Party of Our Lives, a book of essays about gay marriages, Galvin's back with her second book of poems. In UGLY TIME, developers are transforming her hometown into a white-washed, glass box jungle. She's barely making rent. Her girlfriend just threw her heart in the garbage. Sex with strangers she meets on the internet is great and then empty and then great and then empty again. The 21st century is changing at hyperspeed, and it seems as if no one has time to talk about an old Kate Bush album or to praise the patron saint of blowing up rotisserie chickens with fireworks like they use to. But who's that beautiful person dressed head-to-toe in gold velvet? Did she just put Roy Orbison on the jukebox? Could love still be possible in the time of gentrification? And if so, does it redeem human suffering, sort of like, as Galvin writes, when you step in human shit / while filming porn, / and notice the cherry petals / floating around you like sparks? In a series of hilarious, tender, hyperreal poems, Galvin explores the paradox of trying to settle down--even for just a second--in a state of permanent impermanence.

Book information

ISBN: 9780998736211
Publisher: Gramma Poetry
Imprint: Gramma Poetry
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 104
Weight: 227g
Height: 231mm
Width: 168mm
Spine width: 10mm