Reconnaissance : new & selected poems & poetic journals, 2005-2015 / Mark Pawlak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pawlak, Mark, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

130 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Hanging Loose Press, [2016]

Summary:

Reconnaissance brings together a decade's worth of Mark Pawlak's work exploring the nexus of Japanese poetic journals and American observational poetics. These new and selected poems owe allegiance to the early experimental books of William Carlos Williams (e.g. Spring and Alt) as much as to the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan and to Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior. They join aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing, while emphasizing the act of writing itself. Mark Pawlak is the author of eight previous collections of poems and the editor of six anthologies. His latest books, from which selections appear here, are Natural Histories (Cervena Barva Press, 2015) and Go to the Pine: Quoddy Journals 2005-2010 (Plein Air Editions/Bootstrap Press, 2012). His work has been translated into German, Polish, and Spanish, and has been performed at Teatr Polski in Warsaw. In English, his poems have appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Poetry South, and The Saint Ann's Review, among many others. He supports his poetry habit by teaching mathematics at UMass Boston, where he is Director of Academic Support Programs. He lives in Cambridge. Book jacket.

Contents:

I In Transit

Meanwhile 11

Among the Colleagues 13

With Apologies to Rilke 15

4/Square 18

Faith, Hope, Charity 21

Inbound/Outbound 23

Calendar Pages 2012 33

Three of a Kind 34

En Route 36

Calendar pages 2014 39

Flâneuries 41

II Pine Pillow Book

Pine Pillow Book 45

III Natural Histories

Admonitions 63

After Utamaro's Chorus of Birds and Insects 67

Natural Histories 73

Passer domesticus 77

Cupid's Dart 79

Audubon Calendar 81

IV Go to the Pine

"Bold Coast" Partita: Chaconne 87

Quoddy journal 2005 88

"Bold Coast" Partita: Allemande 96

Quoddy journal 2006 97

"Bold Coast" Partita: Sarabande 105

Quoddy Journal 2007 106

"Bold Coast" Partita: Passacaille 117

Quoddy Journal 2010 118

"Bold Coast" Partita: Bouree 125.

ISBN:

9781934909836

1934909831

OCLC:

947149073