Overseeing the Downfall
Generation X has come into middle age and loved, lost, lived, worked, left, broken and built. Overseeing the Downfall is a collection of Midwestern poems about work and family in the digital age, and a certain generational anticlimax. And music. A soundtrack straddling our cultural inflection point, it comes complete with suggested drink pairings and playlists to accompany the poems. Overseeing the downfall is a full-length collection, and was selected as a finalist for the New American Poetry prize.
These are poems of stark wonder. They marvel through landscapes of labor and data, of family and Midwestern effluvia. With equal parts pang and panache, Nesheim speaks tenderly of the moments that wink in the weariness of working life. Overseeing the Downfall’s great bravery is in its staring down the road until all the clutter and rubble seems at once more ordinary and “moonstruck / along the rolling highway.”
Zach Savich, author of Daybed
Memory of Mountains
Twelve black-and-white photographs. Twelve tanka. One long look at what mountains remember.
Memories of Mountains moves through Colorado’s high country, from storm-lit rock to a miner’s cabin leaning into wind. Spare and exact, it’s a meditation on time, on how stone holds shape only by slowly letting go.
Code Poems
Five poems. Five lines of code. One history of how we got wired.
Code Poems pairs real snippets, from “Hello World” to tracking pixels to Grace Hopper’s compiler, with lyric responses that trace what technology quietly took and gave. Sharp, wry, and human. Free to download as a PDF origami booklet from the wonderful Origami Poems Project.