Black Aperture : Poems / Matt Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasmussen, Matt.

Series:

Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In ""Outgoing,"" the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from ""the shame of dead you / answering calls."" In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, ""a flower / of smoldering filaments."" A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, ""a tinfoil lake,"" ""vegetables / dying in the crisper."" Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture o

Contents:

I Trajectory

after suicide

the orange leaves

747

the wave

and God said.

I am not a poem

tom black

field with whales

in the whoever's hotel room this is

vacation cage

monet as a verb

we're not the stars, we're what's between them

seed

chekhov's gun

II elegy in x parts

III outgoing

land o' lakes

a poem in which leaves again figure prominently

burial

aperture.

Notes:

"LSU Press Paperback Original" -- Title page verso.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807150887

0807150886

9780807150870

0807150878

OCLC:

860626528