The wild delight of wild things / Brian Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Brian, 1967- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Poetry.

Love.

Families--Poetry.

Families.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Love poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

104 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Gloucester, ME : Alice James Books, 2023.

Summary:

"Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016). The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word "stanza" is rooted in the word "room." And so, stanza by stanza, room by room, page by page, we draft ourselves forward into the imagination, our arms filled with all that we can carry from the days gone by. This is the art of survival. Profound grief teaches us how to dwell in the house of memory--that vibrant temporal landscape of the past--where we might live with the dead we love once more"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Geologic

Anna Maria Island

The immortals

Before / after

Satellites

Heroes

Plamsa

Fifty-seven octaves below middle C

Angioplasty

Ink

Cygus the swan

Enewetak Atoll

Last, last things

Anna Mria Isaln

Seagulls in California

Cephalopods

The Salton Sea

Cuvier's beaked wales

The Jurassic Coast

The end of the world

Clouds

The auditorium cave

Ashes, ashes

dt Mout Faraway

Cryogenic

Waiting for the sun

One last moment in the vast city of ants

Hyperion

Kissing in the rain of New York

Other Format:

Online version: Turner, Brian, 1967- Wild delight of wild things

ISBN:

9781949944532

1949944530

OCLC:

1345216155