Aggregate of disturbances : poems / by Michele Glazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glazer, Michèle, 1958-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Iowa poetry prize

The Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

55 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2004]

Summary:

In Aggregate of Disturbances, Michele Glazer confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes -- the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love, and the deaths of human beings. Nature's beauty interests Glazer less than the fact that it is chaotic, amoral, redundant, charming, and indifferent to human concern -- qualities that are, in these poems, turned into another kind of beauty. These taut, lyrical poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox. In the interstices, Aggregate of Disturbances breaks open language and experience to offer a glimpse of "the eye on the other side."

Contents:

2 Blinds & a Bittern 1

Wherein space is constructed that matter may reside in ... 5

Matter 6

A Small Infidelity 8

Firefly 9

Box 10

On So 11

Translucencies, her death 15

Letter 21

Conjunctions 23

Drive 24

Ad Infinitum 25

Real Life #11: Hummingbird 26

John Is in the Next Room 27

Inscape 28

Echo to Narcissus 31

Real Life #14: Vagaries 32

Woman Sitting for a Portrait at a Warehouse Sale 34

Sonnet 35

The Mathematics of Fire 36

Feathers 38

Early Romance: Japanese Garden (in the heart of the city) 39

The sculptor muses on his black-billed magpie 40

Valediction 41

Fragment's Song 42

Moon Casings 43

Historic House, Astoria 48

Happy 49

The Fecundity 50

Home 51

The Infinite Imperative 52

Lament 53

Home Is a Stone House 54.

ISBN:

0877458782

OCLC:

53231762