Lovers in the Used World (Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Conoley, Gillian

Poetry

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

A collection of poetry by Gillian Conoley.

Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir

Lynx House Books

Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley’s explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This collection takes its title from Italian philosopher and critic Giorgio Agamben’s notion of a post-rapturous world whose figures roam the earth, striving to find new community, new meaning.
Gillian Conoley’s collections include Lovers in the Used World, Beckon, Tall Stranger (nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Some Gangster Pain and the chapbooks Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir and Fatherless Afternoon. Winner of several Pushcart Prizes, the Jerome J. Shestack Award in Poetry and included in Best American Poetry, she is poet-in-residence and professor at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt.

Profane Halo

United States

Wave Books

Conoley’s selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work, comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy, metaphysics, motherhood, gender and race, futurity and history.

A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New & Selected Poems

Nightboat Books

Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication. 
From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Conoley, Notes from the Passenger reminds us how with increased gun violence, war, plague, white supremacy, we are no longer “in control.” We are no longer drivers; we are passengers––destination unknown. Arriving like missives from a bardic journey, these poems explore how system collapse has led to a new space-time continuum. As our perception/projection of world shifts in the quotidian contemporary and historical—even ancient—time, these cinematic linguistically vibrant poems seek new order beyond division, within catastrophe and joy, written on the edge of being.

Notes from the Passenger

Book by Ames, Elizabeth, Auslander, Bonnie, Cox, Sarah Anne, Hofer Jen, Fraser, Kathleen, Conoley ,Gillian, Caton, Robin, Going, Dale, Campo, Rafael, MacLow, Jackson, Kim, Byron, Kelly, Robert, Irby, Kenneth, Vita, Tricia, Hurston, Zora Neale, Hollander, Benjamin, Taruho, Inagaki, Miller, David, Murphy, Michelle, Murray, Aife, Newman, Denise, Owen, Maureen, Quartermain, Meredith, Marlis, Stefanie, West, Alice, Mozur, Nancy, Lew, Walter, Robles, Jaime, Ewing, Renata, Norton, Linda, Roether, Barbara

Beginnings, Birth/Rebirth, and the New World (Five Fingers Review 17)

HUrston, Zora Neale

Campo, Rafael

Irby, Kenneth

Ames, Elizabeth

FRASER, Kathleen

Miller,David

Owen, Maureen

Murphy, Michelle

Kelly, Robert

Hofer, Jen

Newman, Denise

Norton, Linda

Robles, Jaime

Lew, Walter

Marlis, Stefanie

Auslander, Bonnie

Cox, Sarah Anne

Caton, Robin

GOING, Dale

MacLow, Jackson

Kim, Byron

Vita, Tricia

Hollander, Benjamin

Taruho, Inagaki

Murray, Aife

Quartermain, Meredith

West, Alice

Mozur, Nancy

Ewing, Renata

Roether, Barbara

Five Fingers Pr

Inspired by "the plot genie"a plot-generating device created in the 1930s that used numerical games of chance to divine character traits and plot pointsthis imaginative, book-length poem discusses the ways in which people are re-created, inspired, aroused, and persuaded by the power of the stories that they listen to and share. Rich in scene and cinematic quality, the plotvisual and literary, old and newrecombines all into a simultaneous present, examining society’s endless hunger for narrative. Exploring and blending genres with exciting and lyrical language, references to film and pop culture are laced throughout. Presenting a memorable cast in moving and humorous motifs, this rich composition explores the way the characters behave when inhabiting a construct created by ideas.

The Plot Genie

Omnidawn

Peace is haunted by personal and political history--by figures of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Thoreau-by current senators and dead musicians, by speech and painting, by extraordinary and ordinary lives. Written as though at the threshold of a continual co-presence and comingling of peace and war, Peace moves just beyond outrage and anger to bring the reader to revelations and shifts of consciousness, to possible visions and sightings in the shattered yards of the global dream.

Peace

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