Generous, polyglot and full of possibilities, Book 2 of Metropolis is essential reading. Missing You, Metropolis is a heartbreaking debut that leads not to nowhere but to the knowledge that how we embrace our childhood wonder determines how we arrive at adulthood. This is a truly urbane poetry, fully cognizant of the aesthetic and political conversations that carry on around it, ready to engage with any serious argument. Missing You, Metropolis finds the superhuman and humanity in all of us. In addition to Fitterman's solo explorations of poetic possibility, this volume of Metropolis also contains a section of Cedars Estates, a visual poetic collaboration with designer/artist Dirk Rowntree.įitterman uses poetic form like a pro golfer uses clubs, carefully selecting his tools to address particular aesthetic challenges, propelling his sentences over obstacles in great singing arcs of words. That happened in an old school back issue of Spider-Man my. The poem goes on to describe Cain remembering his days of old fighting heroes and even references the time Spider-Man encased him in cement. This second volume of poems from Fitterman's award-winning Metropolis project ranges far and wide over the cultural geography, from Milton to Black Mountain to conceptual art to Objectivism to the Steve Miller Band to the Kootenay School of Writing and back again. Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Jackson, Gary About This Item Reviews Details Terms of Sale About the Seller Collecting Nebula Award Winners of the. Cain Marko sits in the corner of Harry’s Hideout, arm-wrestling men forty years younger, smashing each hand to ancient wood, pining for heroes. He was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of New Mexico in 2008.

Robert Fitterman's poetry, like the man himself, is urban, sophisticated and eclectic. Gary Jackson is the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prizefor his first book Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf Press, 2010), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa.

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