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Churches / Kevin Prufer.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.R814 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prufer, Kevin, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Four Way Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- Churches explores the way our experience of the world is shaped through the stories we tell about ourselves. These poems braid multiple narratives that often take place in different times, or are seen through the eyes of various speakers. Here Prufer explores the interior and subjective nature of time as he engages with mortality, both as a cultural construct and a deeply personal, unarticulatable anxiety: "In this filtered light, / my brain is a nimbler thing, and strange. It loves / the slow derangements distance brings."
- Contents:
- 1
- Potential Energy Is Stored Energy 3
- Love Poem 7
- From Inside the Avalanche 10
- Poetry 12
- Paper Cup 14
- El Paso 18
- Alligators 21
- Where Have You Gone? 23
- Churches 30
- Matchsticks 36
- Inside the Body 41
- Sunday Afternoon in the Park 46
- Immortality Lecture 47
- 2
- I Am Knocking at Your Window 51
- Show Us 55
- A Giant Bird 58
- Pacification 63
- Orchard 64
- Cleveland, Ohio 66
- A Story About Dying 69
- An Angel 72
- Love Poem 74
- Auto Wreck 76
- Strange Lullaby 81
- The Idea of the Thing and Not the Thing Itself 82
- Not Near Enough 86.
- Notes:
- Selected poems previously published in various periodicals and journals.
- ISBN:
- 1935536435
- 9781935536437
- OCLC:
- 858749590
- Publisher Number:
- 99958279165
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