The Future of Everything: Poems
Sep 2026 · MCD
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About this ebook
The first book of poetry from Aleksandar Hemon, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, National Book Award finalist, and budding multi-hyphenate artist.
The Future of Everything distills Aleksandar Hemon’s humor and heart through life’s vast mysteries and into verse. The collection is rooted in the experiences of war and the failure of America, where language and memory are the tools of investigation of the poet’s position in a disintegrating world and in a disintegrating body. Capturing moments that exemplify the strength of humanity’s bonds, and what is simultaneously divine and mundane about all that we are capable of doing to one another, The Future of Everything elucidates the indelible beauty of being alive and the immense value of love in the face of this world’s horrors.
The Future of Everything distills Aleksandar Hemon’s humor and heart through life’s vast mysteries and into verse. The collection is rooted in the experiences of war and the failure of America, where language and memory are the tools of investigation of the poet’s position in a disintegrating world and in a disintegrating body. Capturing moments that exemplify the strength of humanity’s bonds, and what is simultaneously divine and mundane about all that we are capable of doing to one another, The Future of Everything elucidates the indelible beauty of being alive and the immense value of love in the face of this world’s horrors.
About the author
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The World and All That It Holds; The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Grant, and the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.
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