It Doesn't Matter What We Meant: Poems by Rob Winger instant download

It Doesn't Matter What We Meant: Poems by Rob Winger instant download

A revealing and unsparing examination of learned masculinities.
How does private thinking align with public action? And what might it mean to intend something anyhow? To name our particulars? To translate from the personal to the communal, the pedestrian to the universal? In Rob Winger's new collection of poetry, such questions are less a circulatory system—heart and lungs and blood—than a ribcage, a structure that protects the parts that matter most. "I'd like to think," Winger writes, "it doesn't matter / what we meant." But is that right? Could it ever be?
Partly an investigation of system versus system error, It Doesn't Matter What We Meant asks us to own up to our own inherited contexts, our own luck or misfortune, our own ways of moving through each weekday. From meditations on sleepy wind turbines to Voyager 1's dormant thrusters, from Korean baseball stadiums to messy factory floors, from allied English-to-English folkloric translations to the...