Nothing is stationary : poems / by Joanne Esser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esser, Joanne, Author.

Standardized Title:

Nothing is stationary (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/ead04316-2e57-443e-7f1c-113d25ee225d

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

115 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minnesota : Holy Cow! Press, 2026.

Summary:

"A poetic meditation on impermanence - biological, emotional, and spiritual. The poems in Joanne Esser's Nothing Is Stationary proclaim, sometimes reluctantly, that change is a biological constant, an emotional condition, and a spiritual conundrum. Even as they reflect on the past and live fully in the present, Esser's words leave room for things still taking shape - like how moving water shapes stone, how a great tree's shadow shifts across the grass almost imperceptibly over the course of minutes, hours, a whole day. These poems observe the tilted, spinning planet and all the things, the animals, the people - dear ones and strangers - that hold onto it. And they glimpse the self as it watches itself weather, age. Even as unstable as this world can be, when the poet pays attention, life keeps offering what is needed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. poised on the brink between land and lake. Where I'm from

Who I allow into my poems

Reasons for numbers

Approaching sixty-five

Mirrors in the dressing room

At the gas station

Ode to chance

In the kitchen

I wanted to be surprised

When angels come

2. days and nights of slow and fast beats. On seeing a sonogram of my granddaughter at five months gestation

The bone house

Heart monitor

Borrowing trouble

Vertigo

Softnesses

Restless angels

The angel loves Minneapolis

Improbable

3. the color of loss is purple. After: Eden

At the train station

Emissary

Lost conversation (that we thought was so significant)

A slip in time

A very tenuous grasp of history

Legacy

What was supposed to happen

Good Friday

Grief

The use of forgetting

Two stories

4. the planet still turns. Nothing is stationary

The shadow shifts

Crossing the confusion

Both / And

Modern legacy prayer

Measurable

Collecting leaves

Milkweed and all the other wildflowers, again

Permeable

5. in our tiny, rocking, leaky boats. A seeker in Denmark

Circling Christiania

Separate lives

Letter to the squirrel in the backyard

Knitting with the Buddha

Humans all look the same, but the world

To be continued

The poetry museum

At the end, song

6. the fire that you've kept glowing by the lake's darkened shore. A spell for calm

Walking when it's still dark

On the roof

Your light

"Sometimes, you get what you need"

Self-portrait as female cardinal at the feeder in late November

Love poem

Letter to an absent dear one

When in doubt

What you need: (It doesn't have to be lightning).

ISBN:

9781666406986

1666406988

OCLC:

1570245801