Severance Songs Poems
Severance Songs Poems by Joshua Corey is a signed edition published by Tupelo Press in 2011, featuring 67 pages of poetry in English. This collection presents a sequence of unrhymed poems that explore the sonnet form in the context of personal and global turmoil, specifically in the aftermath of 9/11. Corey’s work reflects on the juxtaposition of serene rural life in upstate New York against the backdrop of significant historical events, creating a complex emotional landscape.
Readers will find a series of layered poems that navigate themes of desire, time, and the impact of violence on personal experience. The collection engages with the sonnet as a form, challenging its traditional boundaries while addressing the tension between idyllic circumstances and the harsh realities of the world. Through a blend of sardonic and sincere tones, Corey invites contemplation on the nature of subjectivity and the interplay between past and future in a fragmented present.
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Poetry. Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky. In his third full-length book of poems, Joshua Corey puts the sonnet to the test with this sequence of fractured, ventilated, and unrhymed poems written in the aftermath of 9/11 while Corey was living at a pastoral remove from war and terror in upstate New York. The tension between idyllic personal circumstances and horrific world-historical events led Corey to produce this series of layered poems, variously sardonic and sincere in tone. “These songs shuttle between a past and a future, cast adrift or severed from a violent, ashen present into a necessary untimeliness…. What then of the sonnet, repository of desire and enemy of time? It is, as ever, that form by which we re-imagine subjectivity to confront altered circumstances, and to assess ‘the shipwreck of the singular’ in the maelstrom of the many…”–Michael Palmer.
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