Trying to speak : poems / by Anele Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Anele, 1951-

Series:

Wick poetry first book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kent, OH : Kent State University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize "The voice [in Anele Rubin's poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest-there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me!... Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Tranströmer and Yehuda Amichai.... The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in Trying to Speak, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me." - Philip Levine, Judge "Anele Rubin's poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem-sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original." - Ruth Stone "This is a powerful and beautifully lyrical book of great wisdom, whose theme is emotional resurrection." - Toi Derricotte

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword by Philip Levine""; ""I""; ""On the Corner""; ""Listening to the Public Station""; ""Sundays""; ""Summer Afternoons""; ""There would be Silence""; ""Who Cared for the Angels?""; ""No One Knew""; ""Something Nameless""; ""On the River�s Edge""; ""Creation""; ""II""; ""With Child""; ""Early Autumn""; ""She could not Reckon""; ""I don�t Mind""; ""What I Want""; ""The Perfect Reed""; ""Right Now""; ""October""; ""Holding""; ""His Death""; ""Tonight""; ""Life is what""; ""III""; ""Observing a Fern""

""On the Brooklyn Promenade""""Herself""; ""Maybe you were Wrong""; ""Somehow""; ""The Dying""; ""That Blue""; ""Thoughts""; ""Nothing Touches the Son""; ""The Church Understands""; ""April""; ""IV""; ""Trying to Speak""; ""Emily""; ""In the Local Flora Section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden""; ""Sitting Still""; ""Exactly""; ""An Attempt at Explanation""; ""It Still Gets Down to Innocence""; ""When the Room Darkens""; ""I have Heard the Wind""; ""Even Though""; ""Enough""; ""Maybe we will be Forgiven""; ""Sitting in the Grass""

Notes:

"Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize".

ISBN:

9781612774558

1612774555