Post romantic / poems by Kathleen Flenniken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flenniken, Kathleen, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series ; 2020.

The Pacific Northwest poetry series ; 2020

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

93 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The poems in Post Romantic sort through one lifetime of moments-bits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones-and hold them up to the clear light. In her third book of poetry, Flenniken addresses the difficult task of learning to re-see what is before us, and trying to find comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear. The collection is bookended by two experiences of driving along the Columbia Gorge. In "November 2016," a recollection of a childhood trip and a lost generation is represented by a steady, capable-if morally complicated-American man. "Emerging Figure" follows the speaker driving the same road fifty years later when a man steps out from the dark onto the highway centerline, in effect threatening to be hit by her skidding car. His act is the embodiment of a dangerous age moving too fast.Flenniken's poems use a variety of forms, invented and traditional. Some focus on a long marriage and the redefinitions of a lifelong commitment. Family appears, past and present, foreground and background. Some poems take on nuclear history. A parallel theme is love of country, and some poems look back to childhood to trace its beginnings.The collection's structure is, like memory, associative and not chronological. In these poems, the intimate and everyday mix with the national and international-memory making all of it personal, and hindsight adding shadows to a constantly shifting past.Plume (UWP, 2012), Flenniken's award-winning second book, was a much-discussed meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site and Flenniken's hometown of Richland, Washington. Post Romantic continues Plume's major themes of personal memory as well as national and ecological upheaval"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Instead of Sheep

Letter to Rilke

To Dotted Lines

On This Day in History

Street Scene, 1964

Karaoke

Married Love

Story That Won't End Well

Our Fathers

A Child's Book of America

1968

The Lake

Night Train from Salzburg

Estranged

Andy Warhol, 1986

A Childhood Fear of Georges Braque

The Jet Age

1973

Another Letter about the Weather

The Lingerie Chest

Maiden Ladies

Reading Aloud

Helicopter, Chernobyl

The Man Who Played Too Much Tetris

The '90s

Poem Ending with Lines from A Charlie Brown Christmas

Waking Up Strange

Pillow Talk

Let me sleep 20 more minuets

My Father's Watch

Intimacy

Spring

Thimbleberry

Compare the movement of swallows

Horse Latitudes

The Fukushima 50

All unknowns were equal

Seven Seas

Operation Crossroads

George C. Marshall (Author of the Marshall Plan)'s Left Ear

2008

Hospitality

With Seagulls

Emerging Figure

Lilacs.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Flenniken, Kathleen, Post romantic

ISBN:

9780295747798

029574779X

OCLC:

1150810741

Publisher Number:

99986102340