The Discarded Life

In these moving and meditative poems, adam kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood.Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in los angeles, kirsch uses gen x landmarks from devo to atari to the challenger disaster to tell a story of emotional and artistic coming of age, exploring universal questions of meaning, mortality, and how we become who we are.

In these moving and meditative poems, adam kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood.Richly evoking a