On tact, & the made up world / Michele Glazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glazer, Michèle, 1958-

Series:

Kuhl House poets.

Kuhl House poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michele Glazer's poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just what is, but how it is. The poems trouble borders-between self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate; between physical states in processes of decay; and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem, resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism. The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, grea

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; One; I didn't think much about what it was; Trace; Every hole in the bird blind says; In the lava tube; Flüchtling; Not where you found me but where you looked,; Cup; Worm, (to a rumor of lilies); Untitled; On religion, war, nature, and the horse; Two; That Would Be Whidbey; Distances at Sea; Mattress; The rabbi is pressed into service; The least amount of stirred air a figure needed; Beds of Clandestine; To the better view; The least part best; Say the Unseen; What so ever you; bright things; Three; Fungus, with Daguerreotype; aperture with wings

Your drawing of a horsemanifesto; She would have to do what she could do with it; Green Animals; Metonymic Sonnet; To the rückenfigur; Two Descending a Staircase; Child and Woman; Cradle; Notes on tact & the made up world; Part of which is remembered and the other part is not forgotten; Elegy; Notes; Kuhl House Poets

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587299414

1587299410

OCLC:

671835093