02437cam a2200313 4500 2745598236 TxAuBib 20250506120000.0 260505s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781571319517 1571319514 mto1pg9 CloudLibrary MnSpTMCL eng MnSpTMCL TxAuBib Boening, Justin. Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last [CloudLibrary (E-Read Texas)] : Poems / Boening, Justin. [S.l. : Milkweed Editions, 2016. 1 online resource. 82 p. Electronic book. Winner of the National Poetry Series: "Filled with unusual juxtapositions and quick cuts that make the poems seem movielike, even trancelike." —Library JournalMothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: In Justin Boening's debut collection of poems, selected for the National Poetry Series by Wayne Miller, nothing is as it seems.Peopled by figures both uncanny and tragic—lionesses who dance and cry, surgeons who carry with them the trauma of past lives, an opera singer whose notes go awry—Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last uses the language of dreams and of fairy tales to deliver a keenly felt exploration of family, grief, regret, and belonging. Here everything stands for something else. But though the Freudian mother and father lurk behind every sequined costume, continue to strip away the masks, Boening suggests, and you'll find an even more primal absence at the center—Nobody, No One, mortality, death. Beyond that, we find, lies only the truth of our relationships with each other.Shot through with mournfulness, gorgeously spangled in its language—"a squall of chrysanthemums / and the weird"—Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last is an unforgettable collection about our human failings and the grace we each seek."A stunning achievement." —John Ashbery. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Milkweed Editions 2016 Available via World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB. Requires: CloudLibrary (file size: 1.0 MB.) POETRY|Single Author|American. POETRY|Subjects & Themes|Death. Electronic books. CloudLibrary. https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/ereadtexas-document_id-mto1pg9 CloudLibrary BSBPL