Wide awake in someone else's dream : poems / by M.L. Liebler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liebler, M. L.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel--Poetry.

Travel.

Detroit (Mich.)--Poetry.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new collection from Detroit poet M. L. Liebler, a unique voice in contemporary poetry. Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream is a collection of traveling poems written in Russia, Israel, Germany, and China that take the reader on a contemplative journey through both the geography of these countries and their cultures as well as through the inward mind of the narrator. As Liebler travels the world, he wrestles with themes of self-discovery, spirituality, identity, and change, and renders poems in his signature raw and defiant style. Thoughtful and direct, these poems look toward beauty and contemplation in a bitter world that has become fraught with mistrust and misunderstanding. Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream is divided into four sections, the first three of which are set in specific locales-Russia, Germany, and Jerusalem. The final section is not limited to a single geographic location but still finds Liebler traveling through different lands and the resultant emotions of dislocation, alienation, and vulnerability that his surroundings provoke. Throughout this collection Liebler's poems touch on issues of political upheaval, exploitation, and corruption and look at the personal and spiritual transformation left in their wake. This ability to give readers a glimpse of a bleak global reality translated by a hopeful eye has earned Liebler's poems comparisons to the richly imagistic and spiritual work of George Trakl. In all, this collection is characterized by its calm and powerful voice, which has a musical sensibility in its spare and straightforward presentation. Fans of Liebler's work and general readers of poetry will enjoy Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

I. Blue Alone in Red Square (The Russia Poems)

The Letting Go

Hermitage

Mother Volga

Zhilli Billi

Prague Spring

Blue Alone in Red Square

For Irina-Girl in Siberia

I Once Refused to Change

The Black Heart of Communism

Politics and Its Long Russian Scar

Sunset over St. Petersburg

II. Germany Is the Broken Heart (The Germany Poems)

From the Gathering Hills of Stuttgart

Sitting with My Mother in Munich

Alone, Inside My Heart

Flowing Like the Rhine

Thread

In Heidelberg

Dachau Death Morning Blues

Moving with the Ghosts of History: Stuttgart

III. The Tiny Birds of Israel (The Jerusalem Poems)

The Tiny Birds of Israel

Unspoken

Old City: Jerusalem after Dark

50 Miles from Beirut-We Are in Charge

Shabbat on Ben Yehuda Street

Nothing Within

Broken Mirrors

Weeping at the Tomb

The Mediterranean Never Entered

Broken Bread

Evangeline, the Ghost

IV. Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream

Making It Right

Bitter Tea-The Muddy Passaic

Outsourcing

On the Scrap

The Loneliness of a Shadow

Walking with Sun Yet Sen

The Fingertips of Night

Reconsidering the Room

Bricks without Straw

Under the Blood Sun, Venice Calls

The Landscape of Thunder

In Another Universe

Soul, Deceit, Crying

Arctic Dream

The Fragrant Benediction of Life

The Sun Dancer's Pledge Sonnet

Who Knew Attachment Was Not

Floors of the World

Blues for the Lost Days

Purple in the Gone Day

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780814335253

081433525X

OCLC:

757552917