Gone bird in the glass hours : a poem play / Zachary Asher ; foreword by Alberto Ríos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asher, Zachary, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American drama.

Physical Description:

x, 67 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University Of Utah Press, 2020.

Summary:

Zachary Asher's second collection, gone bird in the glass hours, is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. It begins with a rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, guided and beguiled by elusive Blue Postman into the world of 'the glass hours' and its inhabitants. Rooted in magical realism, gone bird in the glass hours experiments with multiple forms from epistles to centos, from fractals to prayers. These poems are brave in their excavations of grief and solace, wonder and rage, collective trauma and, ultimately, transcendence.

Contents:

Act I Rabbi's Lost Sermons

Blue Postman visits Sunday morning p. 3

Rabbi and Surgeon over breakfast p. 5

Notebook petals at the card shop café p. 6

Bowl of bruises p. 9

My god: carlights p. 10

Rabbinic Literature p. 11

One night it rained p. 13

Instructions for Hibernal Solstice p. 14

Sermon before Bedtime p. 16

Heart Sutra on Shabbat p. 18

Seeing Whales on Big Sur p. 19

Blue Postman returns by car p. 21

Act II Correspondence in the glass hours

La Cortina Levanta: Los Ojos de Lorca p. 25

Vine sings in the glass hours p. 26

Outside the nun theatre p. 27

Ganesha enters the body laughing p. 29

Dear Rembrandt p. 30

Dear Galway p. 32

Stained Glass Tunnel: A Carson Cento p. 34

Abraham, Abraham p. 36

Mother of Laughter p. 38

Vine {reprise} p. 40

Vine & Rabbi find each other in the ghost bakery p. 41

Blue Postman sings p. 45

Act III Now the night heron

You said the ocean p. 49

ii p. 50

Friday, december 14, 2012 p. 51

Tonight there is no yes p. 52

How often here the horse p. 53

Ancient Hebraic debate p. 54

vii p. 55

Owl at the moon p. 57

Gone blues p. 58

x p. 59

Conch prayers p. 60

The veil blue heron p. 61.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781607817680

1607817683

OCLC:

1134515875

Publisher Number:

99985135227