During / James Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, James, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 105 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]

Summary:

National Book Award finalist James Richardson's new collection-his eighth-is his darkest, brightest, and most moving. From its breathtaking invocation to its final whispered address, During is somber, witty, curious, and exhilarated. An extended meditation on the durability of happiness and beauty, During includes more of Richardson's profound aphorisms alongside lyric poems that wonder at this unfailingly surprising world: from Essay on Wood At dawn when rowboats drum on the dock and every door in the breathing house bumps softly as if someone were leaving quietly, I wonder if something in us is made of wood, maybe not quite the heart, knocking softly, or maybe not made of it, but made for its call. Of all the elements, it is happiest in our houses. It will sit with us, eat with us, lie down and hold our books, themselves a rustling woods, bearing our floors and roofs without weariness, for unlike us it does not resent its faithfulness or question why, for what, how long? Book jacket.

Contents:

A Few Thoughts in the Dark

Again 9

One of the Evenings 10

Essay Traversed by Deer 12

Vectors 4.1: A Few Thoughts in the Dark 16

Solo 18

Sentence 21

During the Great Storms 22

Watch 23

As after Sunset Fadeth...

The Adoption 27

Winter Sunsets 28

For My Father 30

Metamorphosis 31

For My Mother 32

Refrain 33

All the Right Tools 34

Eye of the Needle 35

That Spring 36

Alternate Routes

Fast Forward 39

Vectors 4.2: Everyone Else 41

Big Scenes 47

For Immediate Release 48

Theory of Everything 50

My Other Lives 51

Long Stories Short

Quasar 55

What's New? 56

Falls 57

Catch 58

Split 59

Uses of Literature 60

Illuminated Manuscript 61

Antelope 62

Wandrers Nachtlied III 63

Indispensable 64

Noah in Age 65

A Very Small Table 66

Vectors 4.3: A Summer Morning 67

Early and Late

Essay on Wood 75

Invasive Species 76

Essay on No 79

Fourteen 81

Notes for a Translation of an Ancient Fragment 82

Fire Warnings 83

Vectors 4.4: One or Two Thoughts 84

Two Poems I Wish I'd Written 89

1 Remember, O Soul

2 Autumn Day

End of Fall 91

Late Aubade 92

Essay on Clouds 93

Very Late 96.

ISBN:

9781556594335

155659433X

OCLC:

907652933