The nightfields / Joanna Klink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klink, Joanna, 1969- author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.

Loss (Psychology).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 92 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]

Summary:

"This collection begins with personal poems that deal with a specific loss, then moves on to other poems that take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at having to rule things out as one ages. There are also elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Infinities

I don't know when it began

I have traded childhood exuberance

Because we live

On Falling (Blue Spruce)

On Kingdoms

On Diminishment

Givens

Almanac

On Surmising

Evenings And Days

Having woken many days

There were evenings

Of course there were days

On Mercy

Statue From Antiquity

On Standing Still

Portrait In Summer

The Nets

A Friendship

Elegy

Crossland

The Dusks

The Devotions

Have you been there all along

When I step out of the action

There is no masterwork

I walked for an hour

And if it is true

Only for this

Cancer (Prayer For My Father)

On Abiding

New Year

Night Sky

What if this darkness

And what did you see

We were born

Dark summer grass

What have you, in such indignation, become

The birds have disappeared into trees

But you are unscathed

We were weightless

Quiet, liquid pearl

And sometimes sky

Desert heat rippling the dusk

There is no almanac

We seek the dark

Dusk, electrical veil

Against the white walls

They were never yours

Long days

If you have grieved you have loved

Power lines shine from the rain

Millenia. Dry winds

Who are we, on the ground

Centuries, signal flares

Underground fountains and grottos

Dark blue

It is easy

Hammered copper

Ankerite glints in the ground

It is late

In the ease of winds and sun

Black sky soaked with ghost-violet

Time of wind, time of dust, time of sky.

Notes:

Place of publication obtained from publisher website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Klink, Joanna, 1969- The nightfields

ISBN:

9780143135395

0143135392

OCLC:

1128103251