LABOR DAY

LABOR DAYPoetry. Golias Books, 2020. Paperback, 72 pages. 5"x7"x1" From the press: In Labor Day a long serial poem in fifty six parts Rebecca Kosick pursues a series of movements in and out of the natural and economic landscapes of the postindustrial Midwest at the turn of the twenty first century, attempting to incarnate a language adequate to memory, a memory adequate to place. Kosicks verse modulates from auratic to frank, stately to aching, its presiding

death and being nonbinary

as in plant growth)

What cannot be defined is pulled into the body

and our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves due to an exploitative and extractive relationship to land and peoples (human and otherwise)

Each poem stands isolated as its own distinct world (or word)

which should dilate into bowers of momentous stillness

both by the volume's ostensible editor (Jean Paul himself

Marek Ďurovec

Tatsu Izumi

From the press: Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry

This bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem

Essential in their attempt at consolation