Climate Lyricism

Front matter

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Contents

PART Ill. URGENCY

SEVEN. THE SCALE OF THE EVERYDAY, PART I 141 The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer

EIGHT. THE SCALE OF THE EVERYDAY, PART2 159 Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif

PART V ‘The text is organized into isolated paragraphs and monitors

the speaker’s bodily responses—sighs, the breath, headaches, numbness, the feel of the mouth—to watching a tennis match on television.

‘The text largely gives up on paragraphs and instead consists mostly of a single sentence or double sentences.

Part VI

The text chronicles the many recent events in which Black people have been neglected, abused, and murdered, from the bodies found in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to the death of Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson, the harsh indictments of six black teenagers accused of physically assaulting a white teenager in Jena, Mississippi, the use of stop-and-frisk policies by the police, and the demand that President Barack Obama publicly share his long-form birth certificate.