Our Prediction

Daniel Tiffany

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN: 9781531513139
• eBook ISBN: 9781531513153
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Literature

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates

The poems of Our Prediction are lifted from a folder of sketchy reports recalling the strange neutral­ity of the ancient chorus. And this intimate archive exposes a fear of language concealed at the root of poetry, delivering a book in which doubt, shame, and dread overtake poetry's stereotypical love affair with words, a book that crosses over into the exclusion zone of stupidity and never returns.

Breeding and scavenging without scruple or restraint, the "bare life" of these unauthorized poems invariably confuses reading and writing. Listening becomes the business of speaking, of saying we but not asking who. And in its crooked way, the crooked text may begin to sound like a campfire oath of senseless plots and garbled refrains. For the listener soon will be surrounded by an accident of voices—a cassandrian short cut—exposing the particulars of not-yet-being.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series List
• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright
• Contents
• We
• Once all pillows
• If to grow less
• Facing home
• Why are we not deceived
• If the world is a mistake
• Who might as well
• No we do
• You can run
• With all there is
• To come back to
• We can think exactly how
• That’s not us
• Our hatred of antitheses
• They turn not
• Why have they thought
• Together with
• One by one
• You’ll be surprised
• It crossed our path
• But it’s the other way
• Pig
• As long as the extremities
• We call carelessly
• If the old abuses
• Which in a way
• Nobody knows
• Had something not been
• Someone has been staring
• A thread by which it wants
• This can’t be
• How have we lost
• It really does
• Story of the crevice
• Who spends an hour
• The cat is playing with
• Drinks on the table
• We like what we have not prepared
• Even not there much
• That they would count
• Always before afraid of
• Normally we can’t
• They find they
• We say this evening
• Too much of too little
• Since one can so
• We have been thought
• Saved some
• About the Author