"Living in landscapes of ruin and ruination, memory and problematic nostalgia, Rebecca Lindenberg's Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible plumbs the depths of disruption, decay, and how we go on when the world stops cold. Inspired by the speaker's experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, the collection chronicles humanity's daily fight for survival in a world that's bent on destroying itself. Lindenberg centers love, self-acceptance, and intimacy as incomparable balms across great geographical and psychological distances, and asks the reader to do the impossible: hope"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
To My Insulin Pump
A Brief History of the FutureApocalypse
The Woodpecker
Spiel: A Love Poem
On Memory
Studies from Childhood
The Grape Arbor
Birch Elevator
Bird of Paradise
Tanbark
Greased Melon Day
Bottle Brush Bees
Black Mamba
Lamb’s Ear
Juniper Issues
Oleander
Rose Watering
Sequoia
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He Asks Me to Send Him SomeWords (FromMy House)
II.
Failing at Epilogue in SanTelmo Flea Market
Chronic Illness Imagined as aHaunting
Andean Pastoral
Ode to Anthony Bourdain
Sacsayhuamán
Imaginary Prisons
Reverse-Engineering TheirSacrifice
At Teufelsberg in the Subjunctive Mood
Blood Magic
The Beelitz Heilstätten
Drinkingat Szimpla with Emilyand Laurel
Sligo Abbey
Ohio
I Ask Him to Send Me SomeWords (ReadingThe Florida Handbook)
III.
Discourses of Diabetes Care
Our Splendid Failure to Do theImpossible
Diagnosis
Clockwork Girl
Notes on the Impossible
The Impossible Body
How the First of Many BurnoutsBegins
Short Essay on Failure
Notes on Feelings of Failure
Short Essay On Those I Do NotWant to Fail
Magic Words
The Splendid Body
To Gather Stones Together
Some Further Notes on theImpossible
Elegy for my Car, Wrecked onthe Cape Highway
Within
Productions of Failure
Table of Contents: AnAspirational
Introduction to a Poem at aReading
He Asks Me to Send Him SomeWords (Here inHis Garden)
