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Near Miss

Laura Matwichuk

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

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Summary

Near Miss considers the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life’s unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude and hopefulness.
 

 
... When the Emergency Broadcast
 
System proclaims this is only a test, you
 
leave the TV on because you’ve gotten
 
used to the sound. You keep waiting
 
for the heat to come on, for the regular
 
broadcast to resume, for a new sensation
 
to quicken inside you like the sight
 
of that fleet of ghost-planes lifted
 
from the desert, reanimated, hovering
 
over your house as if everything is fine.
 

 
— “Decommissioned Planes”
Available since: 04/30/2019.

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