The New World
The New World by Kelly Schirmann, published by Black Ocean in 2020, is a hybrid collection of poetry and prose comprising 163 pages. This work delves into the complexities of an era marked by social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental challenges. Through five distinct sections, the book examines these global themes while intertwining personal reflections, revisiting old journals and notes to explore the self and its transformations.
Readers will find a narrative that navigates the dualities of escapism and arrival, growth and decay, as well as despair and optimism. The New World invites contemplation on how to articulate experiences in a tumultuous environment, prompting readers to reflect on their own lives and the interconnectedness of individual and collective realities. With its focus on personal and societal themes, this edition offers a thoughtful exploration of identity and the human condition.
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A hybrid collection of poetry and prose, The New World follows the attempts, failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental consequence. In five distinct sections, the book refracts, explores and investigates these global themes through the realm of the personal and private. Old journals and notes are revisited as a way of understanding the self and its various revisions and mistakes. The New World tells the story of escapism and arrival, growth and decay, and despair and optimism as they occur, often simultaneously, within the mind of our narrator. The book asks, “How do you write poems in a country like this?”, inviting every reader to take stock of themselves, and to reassess the ways “One human world / [empties] completely / into the bigger one.”
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