Becoming Weather

By Chris Martin

Book Overview

Blending Frank O'Hara's keen eye and Jeff Tweedy's heartache, this collection celebrates urban America, in its bustling, maddening glory.

By cataloging the movements and moments of a constantly shifting city, Martin's poems posit a metropolis that is always already dancing and where no one dances alone. Part philosophy and part song, this dynamic collection moves us to "never / stop moving . . . to always go / sincere in the blur." An intimate, atmospheric distillation of how "one wakes only / to this false peace / with the voice / of a weatherman," Becoming Weather confronts the comforts and hierarchies that make us complacent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566892597
• ISBN13: 9781566892599
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"