Unsleeping : poems / Michael Burkard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkard, Michael, 1947-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2001]

Summary:

Reading Michael Burkard's daring new poems is like using a highly sophisticated listening device to eavesdrop on the unconscious. The signal is clear, but what we are hearing is teasingly indeterminent. Burkard has done us the wild favor of removing the usual mediation between waking and dreaming. A melancholy and intensely lyrical voice leads us to the edge of what words can say, and we follow with curiosity and amazement. And then somehow, the voice goes beyond what can be said.

Contents:

Harlem 3

Hat Angel 4

Erotic Life-Thoughts 6

Today's Crisis 7

Unappreciated Spider 10

The Thanker 11

The Dandelions 13

Radius of a Ghost 14

"Foreign" Films 15

Pictures of the Life 16

2 Bachelard 18

The Hand 20

Why Do You Think the Sea is So Central to Your Writing? 21

Back to the Thief 23

Train's Name 25

Talking 26

Unspeakable Roof 29

Rain Trying 30

Woodpile 31

Talking to a star 32

Kafka Tom 34

Harlem (2) 45

Tooth 46

NO 48

Help 50

Unappreciated Butterfly 53

You Were Locked in an Airplace 54

We Have to Talk about Another Book 56

If My Brother Had Been a Literal Spider 57

Sweet Father, Sweet Moon 58

A Small Window 60

The Rearranger 66

A Small Ring 67

See Seascape (September) 68

Moon Thief 70

Face in a Train Window 73

Weather 75

Unsleeping 77

Have this dream 81

House 83

Why Night 84

Notes about My Face 85.

ISBN:

1889330523

1889330531

OCLC:

43894143