I: THE BLANK-LEAVED BOOK; That Lobster Has Been There Forever; How Pop Sounds; The Coin O'Rama Laundromat, a Dedication; Morning Routine, with Shadow; Little Cowboys; Not Pee Wee; The Poem You've Been Waiting For; La Linea; The Bear Claw Tub; Eagle Nest; Junkie Aesthetic; II: THE BACKWARDS BASIC; Coastline Variation #53; Seriously, It Was the Biggest Cricket; Gurdeep's Brain; Found: Salsa Instructions with Frank Ramos; Club Amnesia; Coastline Variation #32; Bloor Street.
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In this, his highly anticipated debut collection of poems, Nick Thran fuses a whimsical pop sensibility with an urgent poetic gravitas that refuses to sell the human heart short. The resultant poems are emblematic of the clash between our private enthusiasms and the cool diffidence of the world around us.