Exit Opera: Poems

by Kim Addonizio

Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject--jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers--these poems make for a compelling mix of humor and pain, difficulty and solace. In a nod to Keats, one of the many fellow travelers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324078936
• ISBN13: 9781324078937
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.3"