In her latest book, New Life, Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I want a cake/revealing the color of my soul.” Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all—surprising. New Life is a book that is Dantesque in its ability to commune with the dead without becoming fixed in the past. Instead, the poems here have a distinct sense of nonlinear time, where each line feels like an ancient bone discovered, only to be reassembled into a chimera of another self. In this way, Božičević continually greets herself as a stranger, reminding us that in some respects every poem is a love poem.
Table of Contents
BIRTHDAY
NEW LIFE
I FEEL LIKE
WHO’S THAT
I STOOD OUTSIDE...
SOFT POEM
WATERFALL
CFNR
EVERYDAY PEOPLE
ISLAND
5 THINGS AT 40
MY HEART IS AN OLD MAJORDOMO
THE ALCHEMIST’S DIARY
THE LAST WAVE
WEAK SIGNAL HIGH QUALITY
THE FUTURE
ZAGREB ‘93
NULIFE
NAOMI POEM
I PUT
OPHANIM
MY BODY IS HAUNTING MY SOUL
HEARTLAND
PERSON
TREE
FREEFALL
THE WIND
TREES SEE
LONG LINES
REQUIEM FOR GEORGE MICHAEL’S HOLOGRAM
ARS POETICA
APOCALYPSE WOW
SIGH
TRASH MOON
BYRON
I WOULD LOVE TO
EVIL TWIN
THE GIFT
SATURDAY
&
GOD IS DEPRESSED
MOONWHATEVER
MOONRING
WIND 2
LAST LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
UNTITLED
15-1 ON LIGHT
NIKOLA TESLA FELL IN LOVE…
ODE TO THE ☀
STRAND A
ODE TO A ☁️
HELMET MUSIC
SOMETIMES
NAOMI POEM 2
SUPERSTAR
TRIALOGUE
GLITTER
XXX
ENDLESS HEART
SAD WATER
HOW THE WORLD DOESN’T END
GLITTER 2
LAST STAR
THE PHILOSOPHERS
US
BRUNO’S ELEGY
HAPPY ENDING
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