The writing of an hour / Brenda Coultas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coultas, Brenda, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Poetry.

Time.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Prose poems, American--21st century.

Prose poems, American.

Genre:

Poetry.

Domestic poetry.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Language as a means to transcend the quotidian and to explore the senses What actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In The Writing of an Hour the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Coultas forges connections to the sublime and wonders what it means to be from the Americas. These poems verge on the surreal, transform the quotidian, and respond anew to the marvelous. The Writing of an Hour takes the reader on a journey in four sections; from a bedroom to an improvised desk over the North Sea, where she attempts to create an artwork inside an airplane cabin flying over Greenland's rivers of ice. The Mending Hour I tied one on, I mean I took my grandmother's apron, its strings and glittery rickrack and I wore it on the streets of the East Village. The apron is a cloak of superpowers, a psychic umbrella I paraded past Emma Goldman's E. 10th St. address, and rang her doorbell for a sip of water. My domestic armor is made of gingham though a woman is still considered an unelectable candidate.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Writing of an Hour

The Writing of an Hour

II. A Channel Of Soft Earth

Houses

Night Shades I & II

Notes for a Tea

Momentarily

Cloud Break Sonnet

Wishes

The Coils

Un-Written

Soft Earth Makings

Poppies

Catch a Wolf

Servetta Muta

Mercy

Plague Mask

I Have Forgotten What Others See

Arcades of Midtown

Knot

Certainly, This Is What I Want

III. Journal of places

Journal of Places

Playa de los Muertos

IV. Inside the cabin

Cave

Bald Eagles

Log Cabins

Drawing

Sex

Riding in a New Car

Noise

Western Landscapes

Flying Over Snow

A Forest of Berlin

Inside the Cabin

V. Mortal Beauty

Mortal Beauty.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780819580702

0819580708

9780819580719

0819580716

OCLC:

1303723470