Named the Best First Book of poems for the year, this collection by Joe Pan was short-listed for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, offering its readers a 'language [that] is striking nearly perfect.' Joe grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Autobiomythography & Gallery

Literature & Fiction

Pan, Joe

History & Criticism

Brooklyn Arts Press

Taking cues from a myriad of short forms—haiku, epigram, bon mot, aphorism, senryū—the poems in Joe Pan's HICCUPS search out unexpected ways to document events in transition. Here the imminent moment, deeply regarded, is agitated into performance or merely left to drift, generating through language a curious experience of its own making. The disparate settings of these poems are as diverse as the impulses that gave rise to the work—a Tokyo skyscraper, a South African wildlife preserve, a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest, a shark-infested reef off Belize. These are poems that arrive with a jolt, engulfing the familiar, before being left to linger or dissolve.

Hiccups: Autobiomythography II

Poetry

Augury Books

Florida Palms: A Novel

United States

Simon&Schuster

Edited by Jason Koo &amp; Joe Pan. 
 Brooklyn has long been known as having one of the most vibrant poetry scenes in the world, yet there has never been an anthology devoted to celebrating the many contemporary poets who call it home. The Brooklyn Poets Anthology is a landmark collection offering a panoramic snapshot of the Brooklyn poetry community—itself composed of many different communities—emphasizing a variety of voices, aesthetics, and traditions. 
 Gathered here are 170 poets, including Philip Levine, Bernadette Mayer, Vijay Seshadri, Edward Hirsch, Aracelis Girmay, Martin Espada, Gregory Pardlo, Kimiko Hahn, Tom Sleigh, Lemon Andersen, Kim Addonizio, Patricia Spears Jones, Timothy Donnelly, Tyehimba Jess, Matthea Harvey, Cathy Park Hong, Matthew Rohrer, Dorothea Lasky, Anselm Berrigan, Angel Nafis, Joanna Fuhrman, Leigh Stein, Morgan Parker, Ocean Vuong, Tommy Pico, Wendy Xu, former Brooklyn Poet Laureate D. Nurkse, current Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang, and many more. 
 As the inaugural volume of a new series, the Brooklyn Poets Anthology offers readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the poetry to be found within this historic borough.

Brooklyn Poets Anthology

Koo, Jason

Poetry. This expansive, ambitious collection by Joe Pan further exemplifies his talent for blending genres and pushing formally experimental narratives and lyrics into a wild array of thought-provoking poetry. From the familial to the fantastical to the socially political, Pan's maximalist style doesn't miss much, earning this collection its place among the most anticipated books of 2019. Highlighted by "Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper," a long poem about drone warfare already taught in classrooms around the country--Operating Systems approaches our complicated and shifting histories with empathy and an eye for the absurd. "'I just discovered this form yesterday,' Pan writes, earlier in the book, but it applies best to the sprawling formless form of this hulking, brilliant anthem, this 'Bohemian Rhapsody' of a poem. ['Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper'] goes on to become a way of addressing Pan's own younger self, a personified lost innocence, and the Reaper becomes a figure of national tragedy, a character really not so different from the tall hooded farmer for which it was named. While praising it as poetry, and Pan as a poet, I want to scream that 'Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper' is not just a poem--it's a memoir and an essay and a white paper about black hearts and black death. It's a sermon, and a polemic, and a treatise, and an ars poetica, and if you think I'm overselling it, then just go and read it, and see for yourself. I dare you."--JC Hallman, Brooklyn Rail "It's uncomfortable to struggle with ['Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper's] ethical dilemmas. Pan reminds us we are complicit in the Reaper's exploits without shying away from the barriers to avoiding culpability...The collection's diversity is also a strength and most readers will find something to challenge or surprise them."--Eric Aldrich, Heavy Feather Review

Operating Systems

Spork Press

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