Carnations : Poems / Anthony Carelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carelli, Anthony, author.

Series:

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Local Subjects:

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet's materials--words, objects, phenomena--are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed. Often taking titles from a biblical vocabulary, Carnations reminds us that unremarkable places and events--a game of Frisbee in a winter park, workers stacking panes in a glass factory, or the daily opening of a café--can, in a blink, be new. A short walk home is briefly transformed into a cathedral, and the work-worn body becomes a dancer, a prophet, a muse.______ From Carnations:THE PROPHETS Anthony Carelli ? A river. And if not the river nearby, then a dream of a river. Nothing happens that doesn't happen along a river, however humble the water may be. Take Rowan Creek, the trickle struggling to lug its mirroring across Poynette, wherein, suspended, so gentle and shallow, I learned to walk, bobbing at my father's knees. Later, whenever we tried to meander on our inner tubes, we'd get lodged on the bottom. Seth, remember, no matter how we'd kick and shove off, we'd just get lodged again? At most an afternoon would carry us a hundred feet toward the willows. We'd piss ourselves on purpose just to feel the spirits of our warmth haloing out. And once, two bald men on the footbridge, bowing in the sky, stared down at us without a word.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

The Sabbath

Glass Work Song

The Prophets

The Muse

The Crusades

The Builder

The Collar

The Apostles

Discernment

The Chance

In Ordinary Time

October Advent

The Begats

The Shepherd

Lectio Divina

The Hours

Agnus Dei

The Brooklyn Heavens

Evangelical

Birthday

Sermon

Original Sin

Faith

Incarnation

No, Euripides

Yahweh

Apples for Thoreau

Jerusalem

The Crucifixion

The Lord's Prayer

The Disciples

Sure

Amen

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786612976421

9781282976429

1282976427

9781400838240

140083824X

OCLC:

713266680