When the Earth Flies Into the Sun
When the Earth Flies Into the Sun by Derek Mong is a poetry collection published by Saturnalia Books in 2024, featuring 80 pages in English. This work explores the interplay between digitalization and ecological disasters while celebrating the joys of domestic life. The poems engage with contemporary issues, addressing themes such as mass shootings and the implications of cloud storage, while traversing a wide range of settings from Greek ruins to the vastness of space.
Readers will find a diverse array of poetic expressions that connect personal and universal concerns. Central to the collection are two long poems, “Midnight Arrhythmia” and “A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud,” which delve into the complexities of art, the human experience, and our relationship with the earth. The former serves as a poignant lullaby and letter to the poet’s son, reflecting on legacy and what we leave behind. The latter engages with themes of birth, art, and the challenges of parenting, drawing connections between the lives of both the painter Lucian Freud and the poet.
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When the Earth Flies into the Sun weighs digitalization and ecological disasters against the joys of domesticity. Poems speak back to mass shooters and in the voice of cloud storage. They leap from Greek ruins to intergalactic finales, Nebraskan highways to Paleolithic Hominins first learning to speak. At the book’ s center are two long poems, ” Midnight Arrhythmia” and ” A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud,” that ground these concerns– for art, the other, and the earth– in bodies. The former, addressed to the poet’ s son, is part lullaby and part letter. It tries, like a will, to quantify what we leave behind. The latter, addressed to a painter, considers Caesarian birth, ekphrasis, and the casualties of parenting, for both Freud and the poet himself.
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