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The News as Usual

Poems

by Jon Kelly Yenser

Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series

Published by: University of New Mexico Press

Sales Date: 2019-01-15

88 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9780826360205 | February 2019

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9780826360212 | February 2019

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The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest. Yenser captures lyrics and blues, ballads and villanelles, and even a crown of sonnets. Sonically rich and filled with detail, these poems link mortality with fishing, nature with protoplasm--constantly finding ways to explore the inner and outer worlds in ways at once understated and wise.

Jon Kelly Yenser is also the author of two chapbooks, Walter's Yard and The Disambiguation of Katydids, and the poetry collection The News as Usual: Poems (UNM Press).

"In The News as Usual, Kelly Yenser has achieved a De Rerum Natura of the Great Plains through his attention to the unexpected beauty of small things and the heartbreak of loss and love."--Mary Clearman Blew, author of Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin: A Novel

"The poems are musical, tactile, beautifully built. Yenser's poems are themselves 'a maze / of immeasure, a wild / scoring.'"--Rebecca Aronson, author of Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom

"With grace, precision, and humor, Kelly Yenser captures the seasons of Kansas in a small town. Summer twilight, baseball, the beloved dogs--glimpses of the news as usual that gather into the seasons of a lifetime. Spoon River Anthology, Winesburg, Ohio--Yenser leaves them in the dust."--Murray Moulding, author of Moon Over Easy

Part I
Invocation to Lucretius
Railing against People Railing against Kansas
The State Bird
Lunch at the Flint Hills Diner
The Salesman
Fishing on the Ninnescah
Current Events
The Disambiguation of Katydids
Revisiting the Weather
Broadcast
Shagging Flies
Making Peace
When I Got Back
Lucretius Applied on the Plains

Part II
Spring Fever Blues
The Abundant Shame of Spring, the Forsythia
Early Work
At 4:48
We Lose Two Dogs
There's a Dog Loose
The Elysian Fields Apartments
Great Horned Owl
Walter Fails
Walter and I Play Clue
Another Owl in the Neighborhood
Fall Leaves Blues
Cleaning Up in October
An Elegy ahead of Time
Early Snow

Part III
Transition
Running Dog Blues
Dream of Departure
Departing LAX
Anticipating Retirement, I Explore Guatemala
Last Hours in Antigua City
Window Shopping in a Fever
Reviewing the Troops in the Ruins

Part IV
Note to Self
Finishing Touch
Fishing the St. Joe
The Hour for Walking Dogs
Afterword

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