Autoblivion

by Trey Moody

A new collection from award-winning poet Trey Moody. AUTOBLIVION traces the difficulties of raising a young child in the Anthropocene. Haunted by the looming inevitability of environmental collapse, the poems invoke traditional storytelling genres to look ahead into the unknown. While also exploring various forms of loss, the collection ultimately serves as a love letter to a daughter's childhood, an act of preservation for now and of preparation for an opaque future.

"This book--and Moody's work at large--is steeped in a reverent compassion that becomes the catalyst of a salvaged awe for the world. The ethos here is a quiet yet expansive celebration, not just of life but the fractures within it, too. Like the finest poems, these lyrics estrange the mundane, rendering it into such singular and clear prisms, the familiar is both newly found and, in Moody's deft hands, inimitable."--Ocean Vuong

"Some of these poems have their feet on the ground, and some of them leave the earth; in both directions they are full of grim wonder, and the reader feels as though they have been shaken awake in the middle of the night."--Mary Ruefle

Poetry.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2023

Reviews

[Holly Pelesky · Rating 5 out of 5]

there was that poem that stopped me in my tracks, there was that killer final poem that made me want to better

[Kevin Clouther · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beauty and solace in end times. Moody writes movingly about fatherhood--being a son and, especially, a father. "A Story about Death" is a standout.