Now We'Re Getting Somewhere - Poems

<p>Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, <em>Now We're Getting Somewhere</em>, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of <em>kalsarikannit</em>-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, <em>Outlander</em>, semiotics, and more.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>A poet whose “voice lifts from the page, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez, San Francisco Book Review), Addonizio reminds her reader, "<em>if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming</em>."</p>