A several world / Brian Blanchfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanchfield, Brian, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Lebanon, NH : Distributed by the University Press of New England.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn & Callicoon, New York : Nightboat Books, [2014]

Summary:

"As in the title phrase--borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick--in which 'several' is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A Several World there are glimpses of an 'us down here'--in a city state, in a valley town, in an open clearing, in the understory--and, by various projections, there is frequent attainment of an aerial vantage, a supervisory perspective. The wish to be out of the weeds, to imagine one can see the thing in whole, and, conversely, the wish to be overseen, even to be overlooked, further animate the poetic shuttling between late pastoral and conceptual project. Landscape here is spatial theater and, blowing through like new weather, a choreography recruits certain standalone selves: solidarity beginning in an erotics of attunement, catching likenesses. 'Pick me up can also be as frequency and antennae do.'"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

The city state

Funny loss of face

Paranoia places its faith in exposure

According to Herodotus

Edge of water, Nimrod Falls, Montana

Starter garden

Which of these Alberts

Gadabout

Nurse mustn't rummage

Man roulette

Open house

Thank you mood

Pferd

S apostrophe s

Eclogue of Sig alert on the ten east

By and by

Wheelwright & Smith

In their motions

Pterygium

Edge of water: Portage Bay, Washington

Eclogue in line to view The Clock by Christian Marclay

The history of ideas, 1973-2012. Alienation

Authority

Casuistry

Education

Empathy

Motif

Mountains and hills, literary attitudes toward

Paradox

Space

Symmetry

Time

Ut Pictura Poesis

Lifespan addenda

Superfund

The inversion

Smalltown lift

Sonnets in Diaghilev's beard

Rods and cones

Littlest Illeity

Brownie's motel plus

And by and by

Eclogue through the night

Edge of water, Moiese, Montana.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781937658175

1937658171

OCLC:

862788085