A Year From Today traverses a many-layered urban terrain--social, political, poetic, animal--in a form more raw than a diary, weightier than a series of sketches,...
A Year From Today traverses a many-layered urban terrain--social, political, poetic, animal--in a form more raw than a diary, weightier than a series of sketches, more idiosyncratic and implicated than a conceptual program. Among this volume's many insights is how we spend our days detecting, minute-by-minute and phrase-by-phrase, an overarching aesthetic and moral design. It's for the kind of grown-up who might say, "don't/look for/who's really in charge c'est moi." And for the kind of sensitive brigand who might add, "maybe the way to go about this/is to stay within earshot & sip the Wild Turk."
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals, hart island, Emptied of All Ships, Hyperglossia, and many chapbooks. She has worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, WI and was the Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City from 2007 to 2018.
