Until the full moon has its say / poems by Conrad Hilberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilberry, Conrad.

Series:

Made in Michigan Writers Series

Made in Michigan writers series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (61 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems in Until the Full Moon Has Its Say were inspired by the loss of poet Conrad Hilberry's wife of fifty-six years, Marion. While the poems in this volume delve into the initial emptiness and hopelessness of grieving, the poet's connections to the natural world, music, and other people ultimately bring him back into the present while still acknowledging and honoring the past. The work of a skilled poet with a lifetime of experience, this collection displays Hilberry's mastery of form. The book's three sections include a sonnet, five villanelles, and a variety of stanza structures, all written in his signature tone, which is contemplative, tender, and moving.The elegant poems of Until the Full Moon Has Its Say arise from the consideration of ordinary, even humble, subjects-a bowl on a table, a blackout, mosquitoes, garlic mustard, algae on the local pond. Hilberry's relaxed voice is wise and measured even in the depths of grief, as he muses, "How can I draw dead branches / in a poem?" Part of the answer to that question lies in the use of form, which gives shape to experience. In his formal virtuosity, Hilberry even writes a villanelle-a notoriously difficult poetic form-about writing a villanelle.Written by the poet in his eighties, Until the Full Moon Has Its Say is a powerful reflection on mortality and on the art that has been his lifelong practice. All readers of poetry will treasure this powerful volume.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""One""; ""April""; ""Villanelle for Marion""; ""Memory""; ""Limbs""; ""Bowl""; ""January on the Pond""; ""Empty Plate""; ""The Surge""; ""Sadness""; ""Click""; ""Vein and Muscle""; ""Virginia Night""; ""Two""; ""Blackout""; ""Schooled in the Open Sea""; ""Danse Macabre""; ""Jack of Spades""; ""Handwork""; ""Mosquitoes""; ""Subtract the Digits""; ""Loping Road""; ""A Body in Between""; ""Angles""; ""Let It Be Night""; ""Three""; ""Abandon""; ""Sloth""; ""Viola""

""Julia Elsas, “untitled 2009,� fabric, thread""""Malachite""; ""Novelist at Night""; ""Spotted Sandpiper""; ""Garlic Mustard""; ""Juice in the Pan""; ""Divertimento 563""; ""Vows""; ""Lie and Lay""; ""The Savory Wheel""; ""Algae""; ""Enormous Leaf""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814340257

0814340253

OCLC:

870990882