- 72 pages
- English
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Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
About this book
Finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award
Finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief.
“I will try,” he admits, “to be better than myself, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.
Finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief.
“I will try,” he admits, “to be better than myself, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Source Acknowledgments
- I.
- Sad Rollercoaster
- All I’ve Ever Wanted
- The Sweet Spot
- Overnight
- Beer Run
- Swim Lessons
- The Perimeter
- Plastic Butterflies
- Takeaways
- Elegy for Recycled Encyclopedias
- A Moving Grove
- Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
- II.
- Good Star
- Starfish
- As Plagues Go
- Achilles
- Hold
- Along the Path to Washington Irving’s House
- Water Damage
- A Childhood of Nannies
- Excavations in Salemi, Sicily
- The Great American Eclipse
- Self-Portrait as Nature Preserve
- Tefillin
- My Stupid Pride
- III.
- Behind the Painted Guardrail
- My Grandfather Dreams I Am Dead
- Engaged
- Cordoba
- On Suffering
- Every Time I Think My Life Is Hard, There’s Someone in the Sky Reminding Me to Zip It
- Our Wedding
- Too Soon in San Antonio
- Having a Third
- Survival Mode
- The Secular among Us
- If I Never Find God
- Final Kindness
- IV.
- Portrait of a Heron
- Birthday
- Primal
- You Want It Darker (2016)
- January 20, 2021
- Spring Crush
- Slow Dance
- The Other Side of Desire
- Spring
- Ruins
- Kin
- Dolls Can’t Talk
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About Jared Harél
- Series List