oh orchid o′clock

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By Endi Bogue Hartigan

Summary

oh orchid o'clock is a collection of poems that deconstruct and reimagine our perceptions of time. Endi Bogue Hartigan treats the clock as a living entity, exploring how society's fixation on time affects our sensory experience and daily lives. The poems delve into the pressures of an over-structured, transactional world, examining collective and personal rhythms while questioning our complicity within time's various systems—economic, astronomical, governmental, and beyond. Through lyrical language, Hartigan invites readers to envision new ways to escape or transform these temporal constraints.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry, experimental literature, and those fascinated by philosophical and cultural interpretations of time. It suits lovers of poetic language that challenges conventional notions and explores the intersection between personal experience and broader societal rhythms.

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Poems that break down, expose, and reconsider our notions of time.

This collection speaks the language of the clock as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time. In oh orchid o’clock, lyrics wind through histories like a nervous system through a body. The poems speak to how we let our days become over-clocked, over-transactional, and over-weaponed.

With an instrumental sensibility, Endi Bogue Hartigan investigates what it is to be close to time—collective time, with its alarms and brutalities, and bodily time, intricate and familial. She considers how we can be both captured and complicit within systems of measurement, and she invites us to imagine how to break from, create, or become immune to them.

Her poems use language to expose the face of the clock to reveal how gears press against interconnecting systems—economic, capitalist, astronomical, medical, governmental, and fantastical.

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Critics praise Hartigan's innovative exploration of time as a malleable material shaped by human consciousness. Rhino Poetry highlights how the collection invents a new logic for understanding life amid chaos and violence. Harriet Books commends the poet's portrayal of the clock's dominance and her evocation of the simultaneous, fragmented experience of the modern digital age. The reviews collectively celebrate the book's rich metaphors and structural inventiveness in confronting the multifaceted nature of time.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632431158

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 6.0mm

Height: 9.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 104

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About the Author

Endi Bogue Hartigan is the author of several books, including the poetry and photography chapbook seaweed sd treble clef;Pool [5 choruses], which was selected by Cole Swensen for the Omnidawn Open poetry book prize; and One Sun Storm, which was selected by Martha Ronk for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in West Branch, Interim, New American Writing, VOLT, Chicago Review, Bennington Review, and Denver Quarterly, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.