SPAHR, Juliana
This Connection Of Everyone With Lungs

Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. Juliana Spahr’s poems hear the tracer fire in a bird’s song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace – from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again – touching everything in between. The book’s focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between your sheets, under your skin.[publishers’ note]

Published by University of California Press, 2005
Poetry