Reverse rapture / Dara Wier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrois/Dixon, Dara, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Verse Press, publisher.

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (Firm), distributor.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

145 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, MA : Verse Press, 2005.

Summary:

Complex and intimate, "Reverse Rapture" is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of everything, these explorers, and the poems recounting their adventures, create a gorgeous lyrical web filled with new ways of seeing.

Dara Wier is the author of eight previous collections of poems, most recently "Hat on a Pond" and "Voyages in English." The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and "The American Poetry Review," she teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Contents:

Prologue : a stick, a cup, a bowl, a comb

That was a cove, that was an inlet

Domain of a hidden evening

Heave the guide ropes, find a wedgestone

Housepoor

Remnants of Hannah

There was a blue light filtering through a keyhole

Show some compassion

Ball & chain, mockingbird, the jerk

When birds, wind & breathing were invented

It looked as if it were time for a little praxis

There were thousands of bats sleeping under the bridge

Hidden domains

&

Bouillabaisse

Reverse rapture

A rest from forced marches

Instant justice

Blue oxen

Those are leaves on fire

Radiant heat

Ropeburn

Replacements

Here in the city nothing is left

Land of plenty

Hydrotaxis.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

ISBN:

0974635340

9780974635347

OCLC:

57043760