Bad summon / Philip Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaefer, Philip, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]

Summary:

Bad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret. Bad summon conjures its own ghost. According to David Baker, the judge who selected the winning manuscript, this is a "surprising, coherent, original collection of lyric poems. I felt peril, heartbreak, catastrophe, sorrow, genuine soulfulness. It's also funny, yet its humor is not comic but possesses a terrible gravity." This is a volume every poetry lover will want to explore. Book jacket.

Contents:

I. Luminal static. The New World

The unaccounted

Evening news

Walk slowly, don't stare

Earthenware

Sisyphus self

Discipline

Summer blackout

Once

Smoke screen

Overdose

Barbiturate talismania

I'm keeping the wooden horse

Practicing invisible

Minor dogma

[Hideous] Miraculous. [Yesterday I found myself awake]

Translating poorly

[In this one we aren't exactly drowning] [In this one I'm wearing a paper bag]

[In this one you haven't left]

[A swarm of neighborhood dogs]

After you left

[In this one the car still runs]

[In this one you are taking the creek]

[It must have been a Saturday]

Human aviary

[I am dreaming in this one. You wax]

[Two men are playing chess in a park]

Autobiographies

[I've been carving my mug shot]

Backyard mirage therapy [That last month when we broke out]

[I went on a date with a man]

Elegiac

River rat

[I've stopped believing in death]

[This the one holding a mug over]

Longest division

III. Hell feelings. Hypnosis

Buffalo jump

Whale song

Bad summon

The smoke detector where your heart should be

Temp/oral

Axis

My friends

Eventualities

What dying was like

Growing down

Smoke tones

Another language

My America

Touching down.

Notes:

Some of these poems first appeared in other publications, sometimes in other forms.

Contents notes from ECIP table of contents.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Schaefer, Philip, author. Bad summon

ISBN:

9781607815549

1607815540

OCLC:

969878269

Publisher Number:

99975617314