We Interrupt This Broadcast Poems
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
02.06.2026
Verlag
W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
112 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
3439 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781324124245
A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways language can become a tool for carrying what feels unbearable (Krista Tippet, On Being).
From a master lyric poet characterized by Mary Oliver as a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting and oratory comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of public significance. Again and again, the poems in We Interrupt This Broadcast dramatize, in simple and deep language, what it feels like to be alive in our time.
The disconnects that haunt and animate these poems are political, ecological, and psychological. Some, like Un-Earth: A Sequence, revisit early trauma experienced both intimately and socially, while others contemplate our present ecological crises.
Set against this somber background of disconnects, Gregory Orr invokes the natural world and human intimacy as sources of growth and hope. Giving voice to both personal and universal anguish, We Interrupt This Broadcast repeatedly transforms desolation into celebration, silence and suffering into song.
From So often there's a disconnect . . .
So often there's a disconnect:
You know the world
Is ending and you eat your soup.
I'm weeding in my garden
As a flash flood warning
Comes my way, complete with siren.
The sky's gray, but nothing else
Indicates so dire a situation.
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