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Our numbered days : poems / Neil Hilborn.

by Hilborn, Neil.

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Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press, 2015.

First loves -- Poetry.

Man-woman relationships -- Poetry.

American poetry -- 21st century.

United States -- Social life and customs -- Poetry.

Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Poetry.

View Neil Hilborn's performance of "OCD" on YouTube.

9780989641562 (pbk.)

1 volume (unpaged) ; 22 cm.

Our numbered days -- MSP PHI LGA ALB PHI MSP -- Ballad of the bruised lung -- Joey -- Our numbered days -- Snow theory -- Unsolicited advice to Minnesota children -- Fabric swatches, paint samples -- Bystander paralysis -- Not dead -- All harvestmen are missing a leg -- Memorial Day -- Future tense -- April, 2013 -- Our numbered days -- Chitin -- The sadness factory -- Ekphrasis with peeled onions -- Phreaking -- The talk show host has a nosebleed on national television -- The new sheets -- Again -- Our numbered days -- You can look -- This machine kills fascists -- Dust mop -- Song for Paula Deen -- OCD -- What the cicadas don't understand -- Moving day -- Little poems -- Parking meter theory -- Skyline with cranes and stormcloud -- Our numbered days -- On sitting on my ex-girlfriends porch, listening to her play a song about me that I know her new boyfriend helped her write -- I'm sorry your kids are such little shits and that we are in the same Zen garden -- The news anchor is crying -- Our numbered days -- Here and away -- Traffic, lightning, gutter -- Enabling: a love song -- American revolution trail, Charlotte, North Carolina, winter -- It was the day I first fell out of window... -- Liminality.

"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these poems are anything but saccharine. Hilborn uses the same humor and self-deprecation that propelled "OCD" to success in order to make his unmatched vulnerability all the more powerful. Ultimately, Hilborn is a poet of the people: his work is accessible, honest, and entertaining.

"Born in Houston, Texas, Neil Hilborn is a slam poet who both writes and performs poetry at colleges and other venues. His poems often detail personal experiences and battles with mental illness or other disorders. His first chapbook, Clatter, was self-published in 2012. A performance of "OCD" was among the first videos posted on Button Poetry's YouTube page in 2012. It is both Button Poetry's most watched video and the most watched slam poem on the internet."--From wikipedia.org website.

American poetry.

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