4th book of poems just out from Graywolf Press, 7 May 2024 pub date

Catherine Barnett's fourth collection of poems, SOLUTIONS FOR THE PROBLEM OF BODIES IN SPACE, will be published May 7th, 2024. Here's an excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review: "The stunning latest from Barnett (Human Hours) blends the witty and the philosophical to offer a study in “restricted fragile materials,” or the bewildering condition of being alive... This is as much a taxonomy of “the science of love” as it is a thoughtful, literate, and discursive gathering of evidence as to how one might live deliberately, carefully, and honestly (“Flawed solutions are sometimes answered prayers,” the speaker remarks.)... Like their speaker, these poems “wander/ the Museum of Useful Life” making “mortal noise”—an unpacking, with comic timing, of the fact that “The human condition is made of moisture and heat.” Urbane, perceptive, and starkly humane, these are poems of quiet alarm, at once companionable and singular."

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