Description
Book SynopsisIn Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining. Taken from a bar of the same name in New York City, Lovers of Today is a collection of poetry that pays tribute to friendships including Kevin Killian, John Ashbery, Joanne Kyger, and Bill Berkson, among others, wherein each poem is a celebration of life’s ephemerality.
Table of ContentsContents
Lovers of Today
Harbin Maxims
Sundial Tone
Travels in Russia
Warm Life
Antinostalgia
Emotional Rescue
Willie Alexander
For David Meltzer
Hairy Sniff
John Ashbery and Climate Change
Barking at Horses
Paris with Suzanne
How to Buy Weed in Paris
A Wreath of Smoke
The Comeshots; or, Variations on a Theme by Gerrit Lansing
Names of the Turtle
Huile Étude
Impossible You
My Lip Filler Journey
Note on the Interior of the Cathedral at Nightfall
Swan Feet
Unstated Nights
Texas Christian Sonnet
White Fragility
A Door. A Stone
Quentin Crisp
Poem for Ceels
“Étage Zéro”
Gone Viral
Plague Journal
Love in the Time of No Gods
Soul Book
