Itinerantdaughter's Blog

My good friend and erstwhile collaborator SS’s uncle wrote a phenomenal book of poetry entitled Devotions, currently up for the National Book Award (woooo!)  The book is a series of love poems all titled “Devotion: ______.”  Below is the list of things to which he is devoted:

Coin-Op

Horlust (in German, “hearing passion”) (G-ddamn, I tried to make an umlaut!   I tried but ehow failed me!)

New York, July

Thirst Reduction

Redshift

Smoke

High School

Hunan House

Soup

Fort Drum

Medea

Red Roof Inn

Guitar

The Burnt-Over District

Dub

Obbligato

Rent

Dizzy Dillespie

J’s Dream

Al Green

Paris

Contraband

New York, 1970

Josephine P

Changeling

The Garment District

Wuthering Heights

Sleep

Bus to Utica

Providence

Syracuse

Syracuse en Rose

Dress

Closer

Flight

Ode

October

Amerika

Rimbaud

The Game

Baseball

X

Infant Joy

Infant Sorrow

The Republic

Active Shooter Protocol

Car Wreck

Nature

The Insects

Dusk

Race Traitor

Futurismo

Sun

Midrash

Crows

Roman

The Unbidden

Fly

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