![]() I’d say there are almost no “happy” poems in Exclusions. “From a Soon-to-Be Ghost Town,” Fruit Bats Music has always been an integral part of my writing process, in terms of the space it creates from the actual writing, and the emotional energy it provides to dive back in. In his own words, here is Noah Falck's Book Notes music playlist for his poetry collection Exclusions:Įach of these songs on the playlist I played repeatedly during the writing of my poetry collection, Exclusions (Tupelo Press). These poems are fraught machines that crack and fizzle, that think deeply and resist the low ground, that come from a place of uncanny wildness and heft." Teenagers can t get drunk / fast enough is what you think of / when you think of home. Falck is a deadpan Nostradamus, dispensing fast-hitting predictions and sour flashes of the past. "Noah Falck's Exclusions purports to leave everything out, and yet somehow this book has everything in it: birth, death, rust, sex, smoking, shadows, floodlights, Olympic mascots, how the sun flattens / into a sort of messy bruise / over the lake. Noah Falck's Exclusions is an inventive and contemplative poetry collection that defines the world by what's not there. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. ![]() Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. ![]() In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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