Sunday rising : poems / by Patricia Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Patricia, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wallace Stevens, in his poem "A Postcard from the Volcano," writes, "left what we felt / at what we saw." Patricia Clark's stunning fourth poetry collection, Sunday Rising, is full of such moments, carefully wrought and mined for their resonance. Haunting human forms rise from the underworld, seeking to communicate, longing for connection. In language as resounding and evocative as the subjects it describes, Sunday Rising questions the past, human relationships, the meaning of loss, and the author's own heritage. With landscapes as familiar as Michigan and as distant as the shores of Western

Contents:

Contents; I.; Risen from the Underworld; Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil; Oscine; Tomorrow Marks Six Years; Aeromancy; Winter Nests; Energy Economics; Plane of Last Scattering; Ravine Goddess, August; Quebrada; Anti-Love Poem; My Mother's Feline Companion; Wreath for the Red Admiral; After Franz Marc's The Red Deer (1912); Elegy for Wilma; II.; Until It Speaks; Rocks and Minerals; Tent Caterpillars; Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed; Air Like a Sea; Near Paradise, Michigan: Brown Cabin, Roof with a Green Stripe; Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Dead Man's Fingers; Viewshed

Poem Ending with a Line from TranströmerLate Letter to Hugo; Helleborus Orientalis; Wood Not Yet Out; Kingston Plains; By Clear and Clear: Riverside, Midday; After Hiroshige; Heron, in Sunlight; Burial Underwear; III.; Olentangy Elegy; IV.; Sunday Rising; Cento; Ghosts That Need Consoling; Missing; Depressed by a Gray Mood on Tuesday, I Step Up and See a Sparrow; If Riptides Were a Gateway; Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue; Near the North Sea; It Was Raining in Middelburg; Botanical Beliefs; Tell Me Again Why Western State Hospital for the Criminally Insane Should Not Frighten Me

Psalm to Sing on a Frozen MorningWhere Pilgrims Pass; River Villanelle; Across Barbed Wire; Math, Architecture; Stowaway in the Arugula; Exile Song; Acknowledgments; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62895-117-6

1-60917-354-6

OCLC:

817565870