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Aaron Fagan's debut collection glitters with contemporary life, from poems on love, travel, cartoons and shopping, sitting alongside lyrics on channel surfing, philosophy and God. Gathering together work from over a decade of writing, Fagan takes us on tour through his metaphoric Garage, the title signaling his musical forbears in punk and electronic music. On our way, through improvisations, trials and errors, we join him in a world where invention and failure are indistinguishable parts of the journey, and Fagan makes the ideal companion, in love with the world and its characters, filled with hope and humor.
List of contents
- Garage
- Come and Get It
- Private Number Calling
- With Someone Else's Telephone
- Drastic Measures
- Deus ex Machina
- Doing My Part for the Tool and Die Industry
- Grout
- The Funeral Dinner
- Resistentialism
- Monopoly, Toledo
- Like It Is
- Looney Tunes
- Oceanic
- My Arrogance
- Kabuki Hologram
- "However, Some Tradition They Dispersed"
- Water
- Recall
- Onycophagist
- Aubade
- The Determination Files
- Confidence Art
- Trick Photography
- Porno Projector
- Pretending to Surf in the Living Room
- Card Trick
- Cum Grano Salis
- Fish Story
- Mimeograph
- Ira Furor Brevis Est
- Verbatim ac Litteratim
- Together
- On My Mind
- Night Office for Models in Milan
- The House that Buster Keaton Built
- Bar Harbor
- Scatology
- The Butterfly
- To Dada
- New Year's Eve
- Keatonesque
- 3 Gymnopédies
- Autumn Wind Solo
- Statements and Improvisations
- Naked Leaf Dissolve
- Lecanomancy
- Making Light
About the author
Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. Poems of his have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Boulevard, 5AM, Living Forge, Salt, Shenandoah, Stand, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He lives in the Bronx.
