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No Longer at This Address explores place and the psychology of leaving through the inflammatory lens of the American West. The collection uses the lyric-narrative mode to complicate notions of rootedness and address the ephemerality of where one's from. The poems visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse with a collapsed satellite, and find complicated joy among wildfire ash and lost dogs. No Longer at This Address is a catalog of various departures and arrivals and ultimately paints a portrait of one man's attempt to make a new home with his loved ones in a volatile and uncertain future.
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"The wonderment in an Andrew Hemmert poem spreads far beyond topic or meditation, far beyond moment, era, or epoch, beyond-even-the gravity of our home planet. The joy here is that the poet fixes his lens on everyday experience and chases meaning wherever it takes him, wherever it might be found. From the microscopic to the astral, No Longer at this Address is twinned with a kind, ravishing loneli
Michael McGriff, author of Inquest and Angel Sharpening Its Beak
"Hemmert's No Longer at This Address guides us through the high fire danger of the Anthropocene. His coruscating similes-the ocean 'rears up like an impossible stallion,' 'the laws of America / pass through me like ozone'-unveil his curiosity and wonder. It's deeply refreshing to encounter poems that invite both dread and delight. This book is disastrously good."
Corey Van Landingham, author of Reader, I
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