Eventually one dreams the real thing / Marianne Boruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boruch, Marianne, 1950- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 127 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

From Gift-Distant, Scratched You're given a life. Each all every small part can't be good, can't be the worst of it. For instance, I couldn't know why such a terrible thing, roses wrenched out of earth like that. They were floating. But an animal-to take in color like taste, flung petals drifting brilliant quick savored, any human thought somewhere distant, a scratched record, the old turntable in the house over and over, going bad. Comes wonder in that sound. Slip into a door to lift the needle. Or full-faced as daylight, stay in the yard. Book jacket.

Contents:

Gift-Distant, Scratched 3

I

Progress 7

The Painting 9

The Breathing 11

a 13

Aubade with Grass, Some Trees 15

In June 16

We're Not Insects 18

Once Made of Feathers and an Ounce of Blood 19

Notation Gregorian 21

Song Again, in Spring 23

Long Ago into the Future 25

Divide 26

Beauty 28

In the Book of Myth 30

Prehistory 32

The Ice Floe 34

A Bat in the House 35

Doing that Thing to the Field 37

Mudfest 39

The Mermaids 40

Triptych in Grief and Life-Glad 42

II

Water at Night 47

Dickinson in the Desert 49

Dickinson in Snow 51

Dickinson in the Woods 53

Dickinson and the Future 54

Dickinson's Twenty-First Century 55

The Class of 1940 56

Aubade with Bird 58

The Young Husband 59

Book and Screen 61

RE: 62

Big Little 63

The Pulse of the Nation 65

Little Handheld, Little Movie in a Phone 67

Stray, Repeating, Human 68

When I Think about the First Pope to Quit 70

Song in Winter 72

Piece of Old Cornice among Trees and Random Trash 73

Hospital 75

Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle Back from the Dead, Talking Endlessly on a Tiny TV 76

Old Words 78

Private Garden, Open to the Public 79

It Moves 81

Before and Every After 83

III

Singular 87

Never Body 89

Tool & Shade 90

There Came a Point in the Brutal Winter 91

Glint 93

Aubade Off-Site, with Mirror and Self 94

I Get to Float Invisible 96

Island 98

I Do Not Close the Curtains 99

Reading in Bed 102

Photo and Photo and Photo 103

Six Tuscan Poets 105

Track 107

If Only 109

Future Lives of the Past 111

A Translation of Frogs 113

What Held the Cathedral Aloft 114

Whole Conversations as a Creature Almost Credible 116

Walking Backwards 117

The Art of Poetry 118

Aubade Under 121

The Sound and Silence of the World Now 123.

ISBN:

9781556594915

1556594917

OCLC:

919202380