Hands Of the Saddlemaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samaras, Nicholas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1992.

Summary:

"Nicholas Samaras's Hands of the Saddlemaker, the winning volume in the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 710 entries in this annual competition."--BOOK JACKET. "The broad theme of Samaras's poems is the connection between eternal things and the passing world, between our sense of exile and our sense of commonality. Equilibrium between these worlds is achieved only through human feeling, through language. Samaras examines the commonality of experience in diverse international settings--from Byzantium to the cathedrals of technology in the modern cities of America. His language extols the primary delight and purpose of poetry: the music and inventiveness of language, wholly new and transformed, language that is both ancient and modern. Through an intensely personal and visual approach, these poems reveal our lives to us for time to come."--Jacket.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Citizens of Transience

Lost p. 3

Passport p. 4

Amnesiac p. 6

In the Shell of a City Cathedral p. 8

The Road of One Thousand Trees p. 15

Spraying the Bees p. 16

The Persistence of Drones p. 17

Easter in the Cancer Ward p. 18

Aubade: Macedonia p. 21

In the Wake of Exile p. 23

A Plum Night in Jerusalem, Three A.M. p. 24

Keeping the Flag at Zero

Translation p. 27

What Grandfathers Leave p. 28

What Continues p. 31

Tracking the Boars p. 33

Amphilohios p. 39

For George While Sleeping p. 41

The Last Weekend in May p. 42

Settling Estates

Returning to Stoneham, Massachusetts p. 47

Chanters p. 48

"Forgive the living and the dead." p. 49

Decade p. 51

Notes p. 59.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.