Zeno's eternity : poems / Mark Jarman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarman, Mark, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Poetry.

Time.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Paul Dry Books, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

"The poems in Mark Jarman's new collection, Zeno's Eternity, take their cue from Zeno's paradox, which says that since space is infinitely divisible, an arrow traveling toward a target will never reach its destination. Everything exists in a kind of suspension." -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Memory Song

Providence

With Marcus Aurelius in Los Angeles

The Conversion of the Vikings

The Dancing Satyr

A Swan from Prague

Almost

2. The Arrow Paradox

Cause Me to Hear

Come Away, Come Away

This Is the Day the Lord Has Made

Our Life

Galaxy

Growing Rain

Seam

Seminar on "The Purloined Letter"

Hillwood

She Twirled Along the Brick Wall, Fingertips

Sick Fox

Brink

Now That the Father's Gone

One of Us, Waiting

End of the Day. Knifing Wind

No One Understood the Final Meal

Blackout Good Friday Night

Our Inconstant Moon

3. Altarpiece, Three for Dante

1. This Place

2. The Other Place

3. That Place

4. Near Cape Lookout

Yahrzeit

The Children's Zoo

In the First Minute Without Him

My Father Returns as a Luna Moth

End of Summer

5. Overpass Ivy.

ISBN:

9781589881709

1589881702

OCLC:

1315538424