The Glacial Trip (excerpt)

Joshua Beckman

pissy animals nasty and surly climbing out windowand into the world I watch from my seat pawing and waving until someone puts something in front of me to drinkand I drink How are you theyasked again today I’m suspended like a little pill in a juicy juicy body But what kind of answer is that

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Excerpted from ANIMAL DAYS: by Joshua Beckman.
Published by Wave Books January 5, 2021.
Copyright © 2021 by Joshua Beckman.
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Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.

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Joshua Beckman is a poet, translator and editor. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Animal Days (Wave Books, 2021).

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"Readers interested in the fragment as a form, or in the relationship of the body to perception will appreciate how Beckman unfolds and rearranges the physical phenomena he describes."
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