Sunday rising : poems / by Patricia Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Patricia, 1951-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

90 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Wallace Stevens, in his poem "A Postcard from the Volcano," writes, "left what we felt / at what we saw." Patricia Clark's stunning fourth poetry collection, Sunday Rising, is full of such moments, carefully wrought and mined for their resonance. Haunting human forms rise from the underworld, seeking to communicate, longing for connection. In language as resounding and evocative as the subjects it describes, Sunday Rising questions the past, human relationships, the meaning of loss, and the author's own heritage. With landscapes as familiar as Michigan and as distant as the shores of Western Europe, these poems bring to light the cracks and fissures in our world, amid lyric exhalations rising like clouds above the birds, trees, and coastlines, language capturing the poet's spiritual longing as well as moments of passion and sorrow. From the first poem to the last, an intimate relationship with the physical world emerges. Its teachings, consolations, utterances, and echoes comprise a sense of discovery. The ethereal and often spiritual practice of seeing and taking note is celebrated, whether this process yields gemstones or ore, or words wrought into the music and imagery of poetry. Book jacket.

Contents:

I.

Risen from the Underworld 3

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil 5

Oscine 7

Tomorrow Marks Six Years 8

Aeromancy 9

Winter Nests 10

Energy Economics 11

Plane of Last Scattering 12

Ravine Goddess, August 13

Quebrada 14

Anti-Love Poem 15

My Mother's Feline Companion 16

Wreath for the Red Admiral 17

After Franz Marc's The Red Deer (1912) 18

Elegy for Wilma 19

II.

Until It Speaks 23

Rocks and Minerals 25

Tent Caterpillars 27

Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed 29

Air Like a Sea 31

Near Paradise, Michigan: Brown Cabin, Roof with a Green Stripe 32

Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Dead Man's Fingers 33

Viewshed 35

Poem Ending with a Line from Tranströmer 36

Late Letter to Hugo 37

Helleborus Orientalis 38

Wood Not Yet Out 40

Kingston Plains 41

By Clear and Clear: Riverside, Midday 42

After Hiroshige 43

Heron, in Sunlight 45

Burial Underwear 46

III.

Olentangy Elegy 51

IV.

Sunday Rising 63

Cento 65

Ghosts That Need Consoling 66

Missing 67

Depressed by a Gray Mood on Tuesday, I Step Up and See a Sparrow 68

If Riptides Were a Gateway 69

Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue 70

Near the North Sea 72

It Was Raining in Middelburg 74

Botanical Beliefs 75

Tell Me Again Why Western State Hospital for the Criminally Insane Should Not Frighten Me 76

Psalm to Sing on a Frozen Morning 77

Where Pilgrims Pass 78

River Villanelle 79

Across Barbed Wire 80

Math, Architecture 82

Stowaway in the Arugula 83

Exile Song 85.

ISBN:

9781609173548

1609173546

9781611860689

1611860687

OCLC:

803470297