new from above/ground press: A PANDEMIC INVENTORY, SPRING-SUMMER 2020, BROOKLYN NY, by Zane Koss

A PANDEMIC INVENTORY, SPRING-SUMMER 2020, BROOKLYN NY
Zane Koss
$5

when we thought it would be over in a month or so.

when we thought it would be over by summer.

when we thought it would be over by the fall, surely.

when we thought probably by christmas we could travel again.

when we began planning travel for next summer.

when we pushed those plans to next winter.

when it was all going to be over soon.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Zane Koss is a poet and translator, currently living in Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of harbour grids (Invisible, 2022) and co-translator of Hugo García Manríquez’s Commonplace with Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz and Whitney DeVos. His poetry, translations, and essays can be found in various print and web publications, and a handful of chapbooks, including Invermere Grids and The Odes (Incomplete with above/ground press. His next book of poetry, Country Music, is forthcoming from Invisible Publishing in 2025.

This is Koss’ third above/ground press chapbook, after Invermere Grids (2019) and The Odes (Incomplete (2020).

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