You are the phenomenology / Timothy O'Keefe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Keefe, Timothy, 1979- author.

Series:

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry.

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry, American.

Literature, Experimental--United States.

Literature, Experimental.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 70 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

"You Are the Phenomenology is a cross-genre book--a blend of poetry, songs, lyric prose, and invented forms--that explores the everyday junctures of perception, compassion, and multiplicity. How might our powers of association create shared experiences without distorting the contexts from which those experiences emerge? One of the volume's innovative forms is a poetic series called "Quadrilaterals"--four-line poems that present the reader with various ways to leap associative gaps: Quadrilateral : Pinch in Your Heel Soars the mackled sound, kites ago : A Polish boy thinks with accordions, adopts a stammer : When were we first older than we wanted to be : That was our city, our chisel, the corbeil from which we ate" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shape into Song 1

Pinwheel 3

Song for You Who Turn the Page 4

Buried Song 6

Quadrilateral: Amoratic 7

Quadrilateral: Adult Lullabies 8

Quadrilateral: Fire Proves the Effigy 9

Quadrilateral: Desire on the Atoll 10

Song beyond Conviction 11

Transparent Song 12

Loom Song 14

Song for You Who Are Still Afraid 15

Quadrilateral: Nebula 17

Quadrilateral: Beckoning Epitaph 18

Quadrilateral: Red-Handed Blue 19

Quadrilateral: And Orpheus Was Never So Old 20

Song Beginning with a Line by Agee 21

Bellwether Song 22

Song for the Last Massacre 23

Song with a Found Trombone 24

Quadrilateral: Almost Skipping 25

Quadrilateral: Green Night 26

You Are the Phenomenology 27

Sing into Shape 39

Quadrilateral: Everyday Marginalia 41

Quadrilateral: Door Ajar on the Top Floor 42

Song of the Seagull Empiricist 43

Slumbering Song 46

Quadrilateral: Glass Elevator 47

Quadrilateral: Entropy 48

Quadrilateral: Soluble 49

Quadrilateral: New Jersey after All 50

Mercy Song 51

Careening Song 52

Quadrilateral: Tuba Eulogy 53

Quadrilateral: Landscapism 54

Quadrilateral: Mistless 55

Quadrilateral: Family Bavarian Tree 56

Song from the Late Barbicans 57

Song with Robert Lax 58

Quadrilateral: Home Where We Do Not Think to Think 59

Quadrilateral: Ideas about the Thing 60

Quadrilateral: A Theory of Late Twentieth-Century America 61

Quadrilateral: Wharf Life 62

Blood Song 63

Homecoming Song with Ampelmännchen 64

Quadrilateral: And Proteus Was a Group of Small Children 66

Quadrilateral: Linkboy 67

Quadrilateral: Pinch in Your Heel 68

Quadrilateral: Reliction 69

Edenic 70.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Keefe, Timothy, 1979- author. You are the phenomenology

ISBN:

9781625343512

1625343515

OCLC:

1012344906