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Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Harryette MullenPublish date:8/5/2025Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781644453490ISBN-10:1644453495UPC:9781644453490Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Political & ProtestSize:7.98 x 7.07 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC1F2C6GXW

Harryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry's most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In Regaining Unconsciousness, her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency: Can we, even still, find our way to our unconscious selves, beyond our capacity to harm, subdue, and consume?

In eleven taut sections written in the eleventh hour of our collective being, these poems address climate change, corporate greed, racist violence, artificial intelligence, the pollution of our oceans, individualism at the cost of mutual wellness, and the consequences of not addressing these pressing issues. Mullen imagines, as we must, our apocalypse, and yet, in an astounding feat, she does so with playfulness and wry referentiality that make these poems surprisingly buoyant, funny, and readable. Our end may be inevitable, Mullen admits, but maybe we begin with gratitude.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781644453490ISBN-10:1644453495UPC:9781644453490Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Political & ProtestSize:7.98 x 7.07 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC1F2C6GXW
Harryette Mullen is the award-winning author of several poetry collections, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for the National Book Award. She teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Publisher: Graywolf Press

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