num_pages: 96
description: A dark no-holds-barred and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet veering between the poles of self and world. Kim Addonizios sharp and irreverent eighth volume Now Were Getting Somewhere  is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsariknnit drinking at home alone in your underwear with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poets characteristic precision and passion the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache climate change dental work Outlander  semiotics and more. Combatting existential gloom with a wicked seductive energy Addonizio investigates desire loss and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats echoes Dorothy Parker and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional sometimes philosophical these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels a wolf at an uncomfortable party a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet whose voice lifts from the page alive and biting (Sky Sanchez San Francisco Book Review) Addonizio reminds her reader  if you think nothing &amp; / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming .
language: English
title: Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company