Landscape with missing river / Joni Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Joni, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

elegies.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

64 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Kingston, RI : Barrow Street Books, 2023.

Summary:

"The book traces the late life, addiction, and death of the speaker's father, a Los Alamos scientist, living along the banks the Animas River in rural northern New Mexico. The tone is elegiac, the poems rooted in the particularity of a place. Repeating themes include addiction, loss, the ghosts and voices that haunt, agitate, and sometimes, console us"--Small Press Distribution summary.

Contents:

Landscape with iridescence

Landscape cut into trees

Schema

A history of crows

Landscape with hole and punctures

Apocalyptic

Still life with circles

Punctum

Shapes the clouds made

Hank Williams' voice

Landscape with ink splot

Nocturne with leaves

Landscape with wasps

Errata

Landscape with bestiary detail

Landscape with fox

Nocturne with owls

Man on the moon. [Sometimes a room is only a view]

[Magical, the heated suit, the way / his feet]

[Earth's marble-jewel reflected / one light-]

[At bedtime, my father tells the story, a rabbit]

[In 1969 when Apollo 10 passed]

[All across America / we fixed antennas]

Aubade with rabbit

Sleight of hand

Ghost physics

Shots found inside my father

Because grief

The salt composition of tears

Elegy for atoms

Traceless

Four nocturnes

Elegy with sharp and broken

Landscape flocked in snow

The message of small hours

One of a series

The air is filled with robots

Elegy with blue inside it

Landscape with missing river

Clair de Lune

Let gone things get behind me

Notes

Acknowledgements.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781736607589

1736607588

OCLC:

1392002208

Publisher Number:

99994858798