Somewhere in space / Talvikki Ansel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ansel, Talvikki, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 69 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]

Summary:

The poems in Talvikki Ansel's Somewhere in Space work to locate us in this world and its mix of the made and natural, the cultivated and untamable. Faced with such mysteries and intricacies as the water-conducting tissue of trees, the sensory abilities of vultures, the lives of past writers (Edith Södergran, Bruno Schulz), and fragments of history and our tenuous connections to them, the poems acknowledge the difficulty of authority, yet continue with their forays. Invented characters coexist with observations of mergansers and moths, orioles and cats; "Particulars rock/just inside the breakwater / like conjured up skiffs." Book jacket.

Contents:

Leap years

Mycorrhizae

How it sounds

Visitors

Their first houses were bark-roofed caves

Outpost

Quail

Courtship

Xylem

Dangerous captain

The ships

Impossible herds:

In captivity

Unsettled weather

Forest

Swallows

Two Gourds

Baking soda trading cards: bird series

Seed savers

Coil/Foil/Ribbon/Loft

Tell the story of the whale

Loft

Places to swim

If the vulture chooses you

Jealousy, Enkidu

History of private life

Sinbad & Skylark

Here's the sea

Valentine's

After the party

Wintering, witness

Migrant: Philohela minor

Don't tell me

Entomology

Calendar

The encyclopedia of moths

Glaze

The garden whisperer

Glacial erratic

Chrysanthemums

Somewhere in space

Town runway

Days of the Pharaoh

Apples.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Winner of the 2014 Ohio State University Press/The journal award in poetry"

ISBN:

9780814252246

0814252249

OCLC:

905524527

Publisher Number:

40025801837