I Love Information

Poems

Courtney Bush

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Milkweed Editions
02 January 2024

Poetry

I Love Information, selected by Brian Teare as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a sophisticated and cerebral examination of knowledge, belief, and which begets which.

Egret feathers. Pulverized chickpeas. A ""faint but constant series of ovals and lines"" that, remarkably, spell the name Penelope. ""Nobody owns the meaning of these things,"" Courtney Bush writes, but this does not stop the poet from seeking, from ""reading meaning in the garbage"" and in the flowers growing there. What does she seek? Not facts. Instead, something transcendent and mysterious, knowledges that can only be unlocked through experimentation with language, with art.

In lieu of linear thought, Bush's poems operate under unique logic systems that grow and branch like vines, driven not only by the urge to learn but also by the need for connection-between people, things, stories. Her speakers make cognitive leaps with youthful credulity, eager and open. ""It comes down to a few things,"" says one. ""Vessels and bags / Every crude tool / Every day a friend to tell."" And another: ""I want to tell you what a sword is. / To want to tell you has been my entire life."" They are explorers of the pathways between our outer and inner worlds, translators between what is and what could be.

Bush's reverence for the act of thought echoes that of a religious scholar gazing at the heavens. In order to learn, these poems suggest, we must believe the not-known is worth knowing. We must let belief hover around all parts of our lives, as a child does. ""To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord,"" Bush writes. To learn, we must make believe.

By: Courtney Bush
Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781639550036
ISBN 10: 1639550038
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Courtney Bush is the author of I Love Informationand Every Book Is about the Same Thing. Her films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, have been screened at festivals internationally.She lives and works as a nanny in New York.

Reviews for I Love Information: Poems

A paradise of non sequiturs, I Love Information might contain 'poems forked as a devil road,' but each one proves a jump cut's the quickest way to a 'kind of heaven of facts without context, clean sources of light.' A seeker who settles for nothing less than maximum amplitude, Courtney Bush heads ever toward 'things so mysterious we shouldn't bother with explaining,' her poems a means to 'entering sacred time recklessly,' now with the gusto and bumptious charm of Christopher Smart, now with the sibylline intelligence of Rilke, and always with the antic candor of a digital native. Information at root means to give form to, and I too love the way these exciting, excitable poems give new form to the world I think I know by revealing the plurality of worlds quickly spinning within it. -Brian Teare