Dreampad
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: Mar 27, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780771073113
Description: "A hopeful, timely new collection of poems that take up our ever-evolving relationship with technology. Starting from an urge to reconcile the human need for stability with what's happening in a constantly fluid "now," Dreampad, Jeff Latosik's startling new collection, ponders whether an ideal for living is viable when we're not sure we can say yes or no to anything in a human world that's growing increasingly ephemeral and entangled with the virtual. These poems, however, are a salvo--or "protest" in the most useful sense of that word--a reminder we might already own a verbal architecture to express the difficulty of being alive in a world that can, could, and might still even be humane, loving, habitable"--