THE MISSING MUSEUM – Co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize
AMY KING – THE MISSING MUSEUM
Co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize
AUTHOR STATEMENT
Nothing that is complicated may ever be simplified, but rather catalogued, cherished, exposed. The Missing Museum spans art, physics & the spiritual, including poems that converse with the sublime and ethereal. They act through ekphrasis, apostrophe & alchemical conjuring. They amass, pile, and occasionally flatten as matter is beaten into text.
Here is a kind of directory of the world as it rushes into extinction, in order to preserve and transform it at once. Poetry needs no one new party to lead it into the fraying future; if we’re in and of the world, let’s raise a revolution as shapeshifters. In other words, this book is about metamorphosis through a radical cherishing. I am ravished by the world, aren’t you?
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
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