Swinging between water and stone / Steven Mayoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayoff, Steven, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Essential poets ; 259.

Essential poets series ; 259

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

131 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica, 2019.

Summary:

"Swinging Between Water and Stone is a collection of poems comprising four sections. Each section roughly represents the four stages of the never-ending reincarnation cycle: birth, life, death and rebirth. These themes recur in each section, propelling these poems the way smaller wheels turn within larger wheels. Settings, both urban and rural, imaginary and real, domestic and distant, terrestrial and astral create a kind of existential road trip where the reader as traveller comes across signposts that lead to both the familiar and the inexplicable."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1

Season p. 11

Red Planet p. 13

Sea Glass Ghazal p. 15

Half A Poem p. 16

Postcard #1 p. 19

Gathering p. 20

A Pearl Among The Fish Eyes p. 21

Glasgow (Revisited) p. 25

Destinations And Departures p. 31

Part 2

Crow Ghazal p. 37

Postcard #2 p. 38

Motifs p. 39

Sweet Jane's Secret Chord p. 41

Signpost p. 43

Duck Middle Woman p. 44

Youkali Cycle p. 46

Part 3

This Is My Status p. 67

Ticking Boxes p. 69

Zig-Zag p. 71

My First Cigarette p. 73

Postcard #3 p. 75

Janitor p. 76

Godot Asks For Directions p. 78

Safe Words p. 81

Wheel Man p. 83

Searching Out Death In Seven Pantoums p. 86

Death Will Not Bring You Happiness p. 96

Part 4

Davening Birches p. 103

Séculier p. 105

Oblique Strategies p. 107

The Unprimed Side Of The Canvas p. 109

Courgettes From My Sister's Garden p. 112

It All Becomes Fiction p. 116

Learning To Leave p. 117

Sleep is god p. 119

The 99 Billion Problems Of God p. 122

Postcard #4 p. 125

Raining carnations p. 126.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781771833677

177183367X

OCLC:

1056197096