Joyful Orphan: Poems

Joyful Orphan: Poems

by Mark Irwin
Joyful Orphan: Poems

Joyful Orphan: Poems

by Mark Irwin

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Overview

Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin’s elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted. Irwin’s poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful. 

Excerpt from “Letter”
      Times when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud 
just as when we touch a body or door, or think 
of the dead come back, romancing 
us through the warp of memory, lighting a way
by luring . . .


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781647790943
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication date: 02/07/2023
Series: Test Site Poetry Series
Pages: 82
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Mark Irwin is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including his most recently published work, Shimmer. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation,The New York Times, and Paris Review. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, two Colorado Book Awards, four Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and NEA. A professor in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California, he lives in Los Angeles and rural Colorado.

Table of Contents

I Go

Goes 5

Vertigo 6

Balloon 8

The Dead 9

Light 10

Letter 11

Alive 12

Couple 13

Blue, Red 14

Notre-Dame of Paris, 2019 15

Story 16

Livestream 18

Tree, River 19

Hover 20

The Life 21

II Home

Was into Space 25

Holiday 26

Edges 27

Joyful Orphan 29

Ash 30

The smaller house 31

Arrival 32

How long? 33

Library of Water 34

3D 35

Family 36

Why- 37

We 38

Faces 39

Hungry 40

Radiance 41

Wilderness 42

Bright in June Sun 43

III Wild

Nike of Samothrace 47

Legend 48

All the tiny arrows 49

Just once 50

Gift 51

Livestream 52

English 53

Plaster of Paris 54

Spring, 2020 55

Nearer 56

Variation on a Phrase by Dickinson 57

Trailer for a Movie not yet Made 58

1937 Indian Head Nickel 60

La liberté libre 61

Thirst 62

Pinprick 63

Three Panels 64

Yet 65

Refrain 66

Notes 67

Acknowledgments 69

About the Author 71

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