Dreamless and possible : poems new and selected / Christopher Howell ; Ashley Saleeba, design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Saleeba, Ashley, designer.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series.

Pacific Northwest Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This generous volume of new and selected poems by Christopher Howell encompasses three decades of his distinguished work, drawing upon all of his previous books. Dreamless and Possible chronicles his wide range of interests, expressed by blending elements of the surreal with biography, imagist economy with a storyteller’s informality. It also shows the development of his signature style, reflected, as poet Albert Goldbarth has written, in poems “connected by deep thought worn lightly, and by large vision writ in small details.”These are poems of palpable force. Howell thinks out loud as he works his way through what charms, challenges, and defines the human project. He questions, tests images and associations, and leaps, trusting himself, into midair. In consequence, the cerebral energy propels his poems beyond statement and into startlingly evocative modes, grappling with and sifting profound matters of memory, imagination, and grief, tempered always by joy.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Dreamless and Possible: New Poems""; ""Dancers""; ""Burning Bush""; ""Another Letter to the Soul""; ""The Radio Is Playing Strauss""; ""Time Travel""; ""The Hot Corner""; ""The Dream of '64""; ""At Midnight""; ""I Remember the Queen's Review of the NATO Fleet""; ""Tiger Tiger""; ""Dust to Dust""; ""Home Is the Sailor""; ""Face""; ""Letting Things Go""; ""Jung Doubts""; ""Desperados""; ""The "President" Speaks Out on the Issues, 2006""; ""Marsh""; ""Circles in the Shell of the Ear""; ""The New Creation""; ""Unaccountable""; ""Something Borrowed""; """I Have Wasted My Life"""

""July""""Mercy""; ""Visitation""; ""Love Calls Us to the Things of the Other World""; ""The Mysterious Courtesy of Fondness""; ""from The Crime of Luck (1976) & Why Shouldn't I (1977)""; ""The Wu General Writes from Far Away""; ""Dear Mrs. Terry""; ""The Bell Maker""; ""Hymn for His Hands""; ""Chance""; ""The Rose Fields""; ""Figure Fishing at Night""; ""from Though Silence: The Ling Wei Texts (1982)""; ""Introduction: A Reverie""; ""Ling Wei in Exile""; ""Ling Wei in His Refuge, Watching""; ""Ling Wei on the North-Road""; ""Ling Wei Parable""; ""Ling Wei's Small Song for His Home Valley""

""Four Crystal Women Stepping Out""""Sayings of the Boatman""; ""Ling Wei's First Day in the City""; ""Small Impressions Lost Beyond the North""; ""Parable of the Fortune Teller""; ""Three Leaf-Thoughts for Kuan""; ""What Ling Wei Thinks About War""; ""Winter Sequence""; ""Devil-Mere""; ""from Sea Change (1985)""; ""Aboard the San Juan Ferry""; ""A Reminder to the Current President""; ""At the Equinox""; ""Flights the Wire Bird Watches""; ""In Grey Water: The Day""; ""Keeping Watch Under a Lamp Post in the Deep Wood . . .""; ""Liberty & Ten Years of Return""; ""Paid in Full""

""Ramon's Letter""""Seascape""; ""The Voyage""; ""The Pitcher's Pride""; ""The Death of Giovine""; ""from Sweet Afton (1991)""; ""SWEET AFTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, 1937""; ""Old Nicholsen Himself""; ""Pale Rachel's Ancient Point of View""; ""Master Ronald Westman, Excluded from the Tea""; ""Cloudia's Angel""; ""Eldon Clay and the Reverend's Wife""; ""Bluestocking""; ""Edgar Cloony's Courtship of Miss Emiline""; ""The Runaways' Story""; ""Elizabeth's Story""; ""Old Lecher Errat""; ""Plato Hall""; ""The Spinster Annibel Collier""; ""The Gallery of Plato Hall""

""This Is the Narrator, This Is I . . .""""from Memory and Heaven (1997)""; ""Alienation""; ""Four Solitudes""; ""The Ecstasy of Ceasing to Know""; ""Elegy at the Onset of Winter""; ""Dialectic from Three Windows""; ""Blessing's Precision""; ""Night Flight Letter to Weldon Kees Found Wadded Up . . .""; ""Streets""; ""The Contemporary Theorist Alone at Dusk in His Chair by the Sea""; ""Talk with the Moon""; ""You Sailed Away, Oh Yes You Did""; ""The Record Player""; ""The Pipes of Oblivion""; ""Everything""; ""Mean and Stupid""; ""Stay with Me""; ""The Cry""; ""Brownie Hawkeye""; ""The Ride""

""Window""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295805900

0295805900

OCLC:

882550022