Floating Is Everything

By Sheryda Warrener

Sheryda Warrener's second poetry collection touches on the illusion of remaining grounded and a sense of belonging. A retired cosmonaut returns from a record-breaking 438 days in space and attempts to re-immerse himself in the world. One speaker considers reinvention from the top floor of the World's Tallest building; another, our complicated future from Reykjavik, post-eruption of Eyjafjallaj 1/2kull. Confessions and aspirations suspend in air. Ghosts float in and out; inheritance and connection are called into question. Morrissey, Cindy Sherman, and Pancho Barnes make cameo appearances. Influence and personal lineage are traced back to the Vikings, demoted Pluto, artists frequenting a Parisian bar. One speaker confides: "Yes, she's longing to be elsewhere. Just past the sun deck there's something invisible worth having." In Floating is Everything , a resolution lies nearly always out of reach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889713154
• ISBN13: 9780889713154
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.8"