Divine fire : poems / David Woo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woo, David, 1959- author.

Series:

Georgia review books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Asian American authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and class inequality, and then to an unspoken cataclysm that is, by turns, a spiritual apocalypse and a crisis that could be in the news today, like climate change or the pandemic. In the last part of the book, the search for ever-vaster scales of meaning, both sacred and profane, finds the poet trying on different personas and sensibilities -- comic, ironic, earnest, literary, self-mythologizing -- before reaching a luminous détente with the fearful and the sublime. The divine fire of lovers fading in memory -- "shades of the men in my blood" -- becomes the divine fire of a larger spiritual reckoning. In his new book of poems, Woo provides an astonishing vision of the world right now through his exploration of timeless themes of love, solitude, art, the body, and death."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ambient Life

On Being Asked What's New

On Trying To Forget Someone

On Refusing To Be On The Make

Sequel

For Love

The Empath

On The Skin Of The Cuttlefish

Darker

On Refusing To Click On Images Of Natural Disasters

The Leaf Blower Among The Swimming Pool Lights

The Leaf Blower In The Dust Storm

On Failing To Write A Poem Against War

After Reading The Zibaldone

The Words

The Death Of The Family Poem

Tamora

On The Body's Imagination

Afterimage

To A Future Reader

Queue

Revelation: The Light

Double Soul

The Changes

The Visitation Of God

Divine Fire ["Open The Doors"]

On The Desire To Be Free Of A Persona

The Aroma From An Unseen Bakery

On Viewing My Functional Mri

Windlestrae

Pessoa

In Praise Of Disquiet

Egg

The Death Of The Telegram

Generations ["Someday, When You Have Grown Tall"]

Generations ["The It-Factor Swagger"]

Despond: A Slough

Autobiography Of My Seriousness

The Decline And Fall Of My Self-Consciousness

Fragments From My Lost Years

On The Superior Intelligence Of Others

My Future, With A Faded Vermeer

The Death Of The Man Who Was A God

Divine Fire ["`No More Apocalypses!'"].

ISBN:

9780820358840

0820358843

OCLC:

1197843536