At the End of the World There Is a Pond (1/14/25, Paperback, Uncorrected Proof)

Description: This is a paperback Uncorrected Proof (Advance Reader's) copy, or ARC. ARCs may lack the final artwork, formatting, and binding of the finished product. The text of an advance edition may also differ slightly from the market book (the final version that is distributed for sale), because changes may be made after advance readers make comments or find errors in the manuscript. Title At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems Author Steven Duong Release Date January 14, 2025 Retail Price $26.99 Free shipping and handling through USPS Media Mail. A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways we betray ourselves. At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture―the ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of violence, familial conflict, and ecological catastrophe―and yet the speakers engage with despair and playfulness in equal measure, always allowing humor, irony, and the exuberance of contemporary life to bend darkness toward something like hope. Again and again, Steven Duong’s writing excavates the unnatural conditions of a seemingly natural world, asking us to pay studied attention to its inhabitants. His poems force us to keep looking: at the betta fish trapped in its mason jar, the forest choked by invasive kudzu, the elephant wounded in a landmine blast. Through its relentless scrutiny and exacting care, this magisterial debut collection poses an impossible question: How can we reconcile a deep love for the world, in all its buzzing, wriggling aliveness, with an equally deep, self-destructive desire to leave it behind?

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