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Here, Duchovny's typically clever wordplay distills to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what the author holds most dear. His approach to poetry is beautifully encapsulated in his introduction: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ePoetry is not useful. And that is exactly why we need it. It reminds us of two important things: our ultimate lack of agency (unpopular to say, I know) and our inability to say anything plain, our inability to capture what it means to be human with the imperfect tool of words; we come face-to-face with our shadow selves, for in the end we will all die and be forgotten, and come away with nothing, nothing in the way of utility anyway, no talking points, no bullet points, no propaganda, no resolutions, no policy, no knowledge. If anything, maybe we remember a few lines . . . something like a pop song from the collective unconscious, something like wisdom . . . You see, I wanted to say it plain, but out comes that torrent of modifiers and adjustments, denials, double negatives, shading, stabs at wit, backpedaling, playing at capturing the lightning. Maybe this time. Maybe that's what a poem is--that glorious feeling of Maybe this time I'll get it right. If that's the case, it seems a worthy enterprise to me.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eAbout Time\u003c\/em\u003e--perhaps his most personal work to date--Duchovny (author, actor, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, podcaster) continues his journey as one of our most prolific creators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFront cover photo (c) Stefan Sappert\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 163614263X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781636142630\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Duchovny, David\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Sep 2025)","offer_id":46080608633029,"sku":"9781636142630","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781636142630.jpg?v=1776039043"},{"product_id":"cord-swell-poems","title":"Cord Swell: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and other ephemera to exhume the generations of her family from her hometown of Texarkana, Texas. She preserves her relatives' stories in writing and in works of collage, a style of archive that layers the past and the present literally and poetically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique approach transforms \u003cem\u003eCord Swell\u003c\/em\u003e into an altar, an artistically enshrined space where crowell communes with the past and looks to the future. The title poem, in which crowell speaks to an aunt who passed away, poignantly asks, \"if there's any such thing \/ as paradise . . . \/ better than the warmth \/ of your neck . . . \/ how close am i \/ to that context of space?\" Her question acts as a provisional thesis statement for this collection, a poetic attempt to reveal, redress, and interpret those who came before her, especially in the absence of physical traces. Each poem imagines ways to access family members who have died and calls out to ancestors crowell never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the process, crowell demonstrates capacious syntactical range, nimbly leaping from haibun to erasure poems, interviews to sonnets. She also invents forms she calls \"grooves,\" which are structured as album tracklists. These techniques marry form with meaning, echoing the voices of lost loved ones in indelible verse. 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Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related \"true crime\" books such as \u003ci\u003eThe Michigan Murders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKiller Among Us\u003c\/i\u003e, and fragments from Jane's own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane's childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson's girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane's sister) to retrace the path of Jane's final hours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach piece in \u003ci\u003eJane\u003c\/i\u003e has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, \"page-turner\" quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another's life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, \u003ci\u003eJane\u003c\/i\u003e's powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1593766580\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781593766580\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Nelson, Maggie\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2016)","offer_id":46080746291397,"sku":"9781593766580","price":16.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781593766580.jpg?v=1776039695"},{"product_id":"burn-me-back","title":"Burn Me Back","description":"\"My Spanglish,\" Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, \"drops the -s and makes it ma' o meno',\" replaces accent marks with side-eye, \"has a Tía sin papeles,\" and recognizes that \"there is no other way to say-- \/ \u003ci\u003eCónchole papi, you look good!\u003c\/i\u003e\" Igniting across tongues, cultures, and countries, the incendiary poems in \u003ci\u003eBurn Me Back\u003c\/i\u003e harness the incantatory power of language through hybrid forms, preserving a beloved father's memory, enshrining the legacy of the Latino immigrant community in Washington Heights and the Bronx, reimagining the world we share, and speaking toward a hopeful multiplicity of possible futures. At the cross section of Puerto Rican and Dominican diasporas, rooted in ancestral narratives and infused with generational dislocation, this speaker refuses to abandon what resists translation, makes the space she needs, and transforms objects as she names them: \"My Spanglish knows a fire escape is also a terrace.\" Yes, the language here is a feat of engineering -- a design shaped by the conditions of emergency, an architecture of survival, deliverance to open air. Like isolating the notes in a thunderous chord, Robles-Alvarado dexterously teases out each word's many meanings, listening for the individual strains that created her as she archives family lore and fleshes out her personal history, writing against patriarchy while codifying working-class wisdom. She reconstructs a whole genealogy in \"What They Mean by Papers,\" reciting a negative litany of \"papeles.\" \"Not the \u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eEl Diario La Prensa\u003c\/i\u003e, \/ or the kind my mother read to me on Sunday \/ mornings,\" her \"throat full of \/ pelitos de mango,\" \"Not the kind Tía Weltina used to roll her tobacco with,\" \"conjuring \/ Taíno spirits she exhaled ... as she tried to memorize the national anthem,\" but the kind \"Uncle Rito forged\" while he \"learned to curl the R in his name \/ as if writing sacred geometry,\" \"the kind that convinced four of my aunts to marry older \/ naturalized men in exchange for an acre of my grandfather's campo\" -- the kind that required the rest of their lives as payment, \"their bodies, \/ all their milk and honey, all their amber and caña dulce \/ sacrificed to the lust of viejos verdes, old bastards \/ who soured early on too much tabaco y ron and wanted to plant \/ their moldy seeds in supple girls who had never seen snow.\" Robles-Alvarado orchestrates the fullness of her song by refusing to leave anyone out, by making room for a term's contradictory definitions and playing through discordant combinations until the dissonance resolves. What began as an elegy composed by a daughter lost in mourning becomes an expansive arrangement sounding rupture and repair. This music travels between loss and recovery, addiction and sobriety, the cooling embers of lost childhood and the heat of the present, this very moment in which you could reach out to the people around you and ask them to be here with you for every scalding second, the warmth of your skin against theirs posing a burning question -- an invitation to burn you back.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1961897660\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781961897663\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Robles-Alvarado, Peggy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2025)","offer_id":46080832078021,"sku":"9781961897663","price":17.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781961897663.jpg?v=1776040641"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/poetry-subjects-themes-death-grief-loss.oembed?page=3","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}