Steady daylight : poems / Joseph Bathanti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bathanti, Joseph, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Liberty (Pittsburgh, Pa.).

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 91 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Joseph Bathanti's latest volume of poetry, Steady Daylight, returns again to the place he grew up, the now-vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. These poems sift the precarious and wholly unreliable terrain of memory, working paradoxically through the lens of the documentarian and the fabulist at once, where the portal into the past, and thus the congress among the living and the dead, opens capriciously at its own whim. The speaker in Steady Daylight traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the "old" East Liberty have evanesced--faded letters and the "faithfully departed," daguerreotypes and tattered versions of stories passed down in broken English, bulldozed buildings and a pig-headed refusal to divulge--Bathanti invents a world ample enough for the dead and the living with verse by turns old world and operatic. Through incantatory language thrumming with hope and photographic integrity, laced with light and benediction, he reimagines what once was in renderings shot through with more psychic truth and revelation than anything that might have really happened. Ultimately, Steady Daylight is an elegy and a praise song, a heartbreakingly beautiful requiem"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Bathanti, Joseph Steady daylight

ISBN:

9780807185858

080718585X

OCLC:

1547892542