EvolutionEvolution

The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets --and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir) , as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice --here, in Evolution , we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts--like nobody else--the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution , with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:

Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of "me"
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth's furniture
but that can't be
true or like
the coke & the Times
it's true for a little
while.