{"product_id":"exclusions-9781946482334","title":"Exclusions","description":"What happens when a central part of life as we know it does not exist? Noah Falck's latest collection answers this question in a playfully gloomy way that reveals the strange edges of our reality. Anyone who has experienced that rug-pulling sensation of change, of strangeness, will relate to Noah Falk's Exclusions. Each lyric poem \"excludes\" a common subject, including topics such as fiction, modern technology, answers, government, and romance. By setting these subjects against a backdrop of obscurity and strangeness, Falck skillfully keeps readers invested and off-balance. Exclusions brings readers into a world where \"the wind is nothing more than a brilliant collection of sighs\" and \"the sun flattens into a sort of messy bruise over the lake.\" Even excluding many of the things we take for granted, Falck's lyric poetry includes so much: death, smoke, shadows, sadness, history. This collection will leave readers with a changed perspective on what is necessary, and how to deal with immense change. A 2020 Believer Book Awards Finalist, Exclusions has been praised for its ability to \"[keep readers] off balance, stumbling forward, and absolutely alive with both the inventive possibilities of lyric poetry and that rare experience of watching the genre redefine itself in a pair of this art's most capable hands.\" This is a genre-defining book of poetry that allows us to look into the past, present, and future to understand \"the foundations of sadness beginning with the needs of children.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalck, Noah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Noah Falck is the author of \u003cem\u003eSnowmen Losing Weight\u003c\/em\u003e (BatCat Press, 2012), \u003cem\u003eYou Are In Nearly Every Future\u003c\/em\u003e (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (BlazeVOX Books, 2017). His poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBoston Review, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poets.org, \u003c\/em\u003e and has been anthologized in \u003cem\u003ePoem-A-Day 365 Poems for Every Occasion\u003c\/em\u003e (Abrams Books, 2015). He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as Education Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center and curates the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry series inside a 130-foot abandoned grain elevator.","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50915741696274,"sku":"9781946482334","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e160f38a-1c65-4deb-a2d7-cafd0053987a.jpg?v=1738828378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/exclusions-9781946482334","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}