Meghan O'Rourke

Halflife

Poems

"Impressive. A box full of surprises and intense delights."—Billy Collins

The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive love affairs, aesthetic obsession, and encroaching war, but refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination.

Meghan O'Rourke is the culture editor at Slate and a poetry editor at The Paris Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

April 2007 / hardcover / ISBN 978-0-393-06475-9
6" x 8" / 96 pages / Poetry