Reck / Leslie Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Leslie, 1962- author.

Series:

Akron series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

114 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Fifteenth-century theologian and philosopher Nicholas Malebranche said that attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul. The title of this third collection by National Book Award finalist Harrison means both to pay attention to, and to be concerned by. These strange and moving poems take as one of their central tenets that the act of paying attention engenders care, empathy, and love. From the widest lenses-history, time itself, the abandoned machines of space, ancient plagues, and the moon-to the smallest creatures we share the imperiled planet with-mice, wood frogs, birds, bats, and bees-the poems of Reck ask what it means to live and how we can love in our historical moment, beset as we are by climate change, pandemic, war and cataclysms great and small. An early poem invites- "Come be with me we have tickets for the end/ of the world." By turns funny, bitter, and deeply lyrical, this is a book of love, attention, concern, and grief"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: [& the world in which I loved you]

Covalent

Parable of the volcano

Shipwreck

-domestic

Praise song with coyotes and foxes

Ars poetica

-bills of mortality (1690)

Charm against sorrow

Voyager parable

-invitation

Corona penumbra

Another letter

The things they know

Selva oscura

Parable of the moon

Even the blind see blue

Parable of the dead

Migration

This is what I would say to you

-ink

This is the letter I would write you

Parable of the maps

Kinship parable

Parable of the dictionary

Parable of the elephant (1692)

Parable of the red planet

A prayer for our mortality

Wandering heart parable

-the ark

We counted the dead

[We lived so long in the fire]

Parable of the telephone

Hibernacula parable

Tourist parable

Collapse

-etymology

Parable of the seasons

Parable of the little ghost

Apocalypse looks different than we thought

Whatever is ruined is made strong

A prayer for seven years

-what love is

Sometimes the winter blows through me

[& say of me this]

Parable of the spring.

Other Format:

Online version: Harrison, Leslie, 1962- Reck

ISBN:

9781629222349

1629222348

9781629222356

1629222356

OCLC:

1345220568