TERMINAL HUMAN VELOCITY
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TERMINAL HUMAN VELOCITY
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Jan. 20, 2017 | Poetry | Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9969816-0-6
Distributor: Ingram (2nd Ed.)
A woman leaps from the Empire State Building but falls only a single floor before she is blown back inside. So begins Christina Olson’s second collection of poetry, a rollicking, richly imagined mosaic that pits science, history, and fate against one another in an attempt try to answer the bedeviling questions of cause and effect: Do we have power over the events of our lives, or are other forces at work? Who or what is in control? Terminal Human Velocity is a steady-voiced, multi-faced narrative of the human condition, mythic yet modern—keenly inquisitive, never complacent, and ceaselessly compelling.
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"It is always a pleasure to read poems beyond the scope of one’s usual aesthetics and to not only enjoy them, but to be gobsmacked by the surprising engines that make them run: a cop show, sensational news stories, a Christmas party attended by infectious diseases. As Christina Olson writes in her beguiling second collection, 'sometimes there is real sadness' in a world that can feel very unreal much of the time. Thank the stars in our modern, satellite-pocked heavens for Christina Olson’s poems, and the chills they give us as we contemplate what comforts are left."
- Keetje Kuipers, author of Beautiful in the Mouth and The Keys to the Jail
