Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southernerâs book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmertâs poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the authorâs father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the authorâs apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate.
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Nov 16, 2022
€17.35