Love / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004, and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke', 'The Sonnets' and 'Poems for Other People'.
Poems for Luke I have been thinking Supper is done Honeymoon After Tikrit The Sonnets A Final Sonnet (for Luke) 'Dear Luke, It's 5.15 p.m.' 'We've been indulgent... ' 'The experiment was me trying...' 'I took it for a "door"...' 'In summer...' 'You jerk you didn't...' 'Luke, I can no longer...' 'God bless you Luke...' 'Not home to myself this evening...' 'O stayer~putter...' 'You're such a flake...' Avec fond memories Ain't gonna work on our farm no more Poems for Other People For Susana Gardner For Seaton (after Ashbery) For Josh (after 'oooo the air is full of thought') from Hopeful for Love are th'Improverish'd of Faith 'Content-Specific' My notes / Notes about me Perhaps Other Reasons To his Uncool Mistress (after Marvell) The Triumph of Misogyny from Some Curious Thing Past Filmic Tense 'the throwback to the tunnel...' 'otherwise one could ask...' 'if e.g. in the past...' 'While the past 30 years...' 'here the arches may narrow...' 'less a port from the storm...' Past Mythic Tense 6 (The Avaunt Garde) 'otherwise one might have to ask...' from Who handles one over the backlash Waiting When Expectation Relinquishes Underneath Itself Of All The Surprises: A Love Poem for Seaton from When I Say I Believe Women Dear America The sense of falling from I just want you to know that we can still be friends In translation 8 In this world from How To Make Millions cuts that I do & mouth a lot Happy [not enervated] from The Dirt Glitch Land Alter Affair Not misrepresenting but even producing being produced by its very nature (Re.vision)
