Éireann Lorsung is the author of two previous collections of poems: Her Book and Music for Landing Planes By, which was named a New and Noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2016. Since completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota, Lorsung has studied printmaking and drawing at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and taught high school in rural France. While living in Belgium, she ran a micropress called MIEL Books and a residency space called Dickinson House for writers and artists. From 2017¿2020 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Nonfiction at the University of Maine, Farmington.
Contents
Redaction / monument
Form A
[1]
A tendency to survive after disaster
Gray century
Century with insomnia
Island century
Dream sequence for the century, with sonata
Winter century
Century lesson
The book of splendor
Big questions
Century at Lampedusa
Illuminated century
[2] Americium
Prypyat night song
Open letter to Dmitriy Savchenko
Ukrainian scientists split the atom
Nuclear geography
Report from Nasiriyah
Report from Nasiriyah
Occupations for air
A huge letter on a hillside
[3]
An archaeology
The book of splendor
[4]
Quite ordinary young men / some were neighbors
Telephone 1
The lightest word they used was animal
Telephone 2
Border house
Telephone 3
Telephone 4
Telephone 5
Quite ordinary young men / some were neighbors
[5]
Nuclear geography
[6] When I say fathers I imagine the picture of my gentle father with his
brother (dead now) and his mother (also dead) and his father (now also
dead, although at the time of first writing not yet dead), laughing, no one
looking at the camera and no one noticing the photographer, who must be a
friend or maybe my uncle on my mother's side, and who is in the room but
invisible, and who for us has handed down these bodies as they once were,
and outside the room the crush of history goes on
