Evolution (Unabridged‪)‬

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.