A grammar to waking : poems / by Nancy Eimers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eimers, Nancy.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Time is the hour at which a pub closes, the moment we must put our pencils down, a way of paying later for something now. A Grammar to Waking explores moments we wake to the grammar of living time, what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being." In the drift of the present, of song in the throat of its bird and the verb in its sentence, the drift of loved one into memoir, of talk from the talker to the listener, how and where does meaning live? "There are so many rules we don't even know," writes Nancy Eimers, "but we wake to them anyway." This collection offers a reflective, loving look at the mystery of the time being.

Contents:

A Grammar To Waking 11

The Study of Limits 12

Driving in Snow 13

Arlington Street 15

Passing Things 16

Photograph of a Young Girl, 1941 18

So We'll Go No More 20

Nouns 23

S-Curve, 131 25

Mall at the Crossroads 26

A Verb in This Mood 31

The Mercator Projection 32

At Two 35

Scriptura Vulgaris 36

To the Voices Over the Fence 38

Occasionals 40

Shower 42

Handwriting in America 44

If Fame Were Not an Accident, and History a Distillation of Rumour 46

The Motion Detector 48

Go Slow, There Are Children at Play 51

Earthquake Memories 52

On a Dog Dying in Separate Frames 54

Private 56

Thoughts of the Moon 58

Bygones 59

Vortex 61

They All Went 63

Train Whistle 64

The Ratio of the Said to the Unsaid 67

Remorse 70

I Finde in a Boke Compiled to This Matere an Olde Histoire 72

Psychic Photographer 73

Hearing Aid 75

Crepuscule 77

Detail: Stone Floor, Garden of the Master of Nets 82

Lunar Eclipse 84

Clothes on a Line 85.

ISBN:

0887484476

OCLC:

68225748