Space walk / Tom Sleigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sleigh, Tom.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

vi, 101 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Summary:

Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imagination' s limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our current American realities of empire, state violence, the endless " crisis-chatter" of talking heads, and the eerie, weightless feeling of impending catastrophe, they are tethered to the gravitational pull of love and hope. In Tom Sleigh' s poems, rocket engines and pancake houses, space stations and mom' s kitchen, terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part of love' s intergalactic amplitude. As the poet writes in " After Netzsche" " In the face that must conceal / what is necessary / to bear / love appears in the face / of the face of what is necessary."

Contents:

Blueprint 3

Oracle 5

Space Station 9

"Barbarian" 11

The Breeze 14

The Mouth 17

Invader 19

Necessity 22

Ice Trucker Pilgrimage: A Libretto 25

Chant 30

Betrayal 32

The Hole 36

Nobody 37

Drag Show 38

Tonight 40

After Nietzsche 43

Last Broadcast 47

Premonition 49

Panel at the Press Club 51

Persian Miniature 52

Zoom 55

Ziggurat 56

Fable 57

Wall 59

Song Beyond Reason 63

Afterlife 65

Clinic 68

Lullaby 70

To a Wasp on Fifth Avenue 72

Hammer 73

Song 75

The Flood 77

Inventory 79

Broken Ballad 81

Block and Bag 83

Archaic Figures 85

First Love 87

Discipline 88

Achilles' Dream 91

Airport Economy Inn 96.

ISBN:

9780618684243

0618684247

OCLC:

71348718

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