Love took the words : poems / Christopher Jane Corkery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corkery, Christopher Jane, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 pages)

Place of Publication:

2020.

Seattle, Washington : Slant Books, [2020]

Summary:

"Love took the words right out of my mouth." So begins the first line of Christopher Jane Corkery's poignant and unforgettable new collection of poems. Throughout the work these two themes--the power and mystery of language, especially the crafted one of poetry, and what Keats called "the holiness of the heart's affections"--intertwine, accumulating a rich panoply of associations and meanings.The occasions for Corkery's poems are often domestic: the thrill of youthful romance, of marriage and family, of children inventing new worlds. Yet here also are a poet's acts, psychological and spiritual, in a life which, like every reader's life, contains plenty and its absence all at once.Objects matter here--a bread board, a swing, a still life--but so do places (from New England to Paris and Seville). The poet is also joined by the ghostly presences of poets and mystics, from Teresa of Avila, John Keats, and George Herbert to Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats.Again and again Corkery is drawn to the essential way in which poetry enacts love. In fullness or in scarcity, in loving or in grief, both writer and reader are engaged, fulfilling the contract of poetry.

Contents:

Intro

1

AS IN THE DAYS OF THE PROPHETS

HAPPINESS

THE STRAPS OF THEIR SANDALS

CENTRAL AND MAIN

THE WOMAN AT THE TIJUANA DUMP

JIGSAW PUZZLE IN PREGNANCY

THE CHOSEN

PATIO

UPHOLSTERY

ALMOST STILL LIFE

DREAM AND PRÉCIS

2

MARCH

A SCRAP OF FABRIC AT CHATHAM

THINGS

IT WAS YEATS WHO TOOK ME

GALAXIES

TO FIND A WAY TO THE WORLD'S HEART

THE FIRST TO MAKE MUSIC

TEACHING TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

BY OURSELVES

DECLARATIVE

BEHIND THE HOUSE

3

REPOSITORY

DANTE CONFUSES US

WHEN YOUR DAUGHTER WAS TURNING TWENTY-EIGHT

REPLACEMENT

NEAR HANSCOM AIR BASE

BY THE OCEAN

PAINTER ON SCAFFOLDING IN SUMMER

THE SIREN

TORN PAPER

4

THE OLD DAYS

The Foliage of Tulips

IL CAVALLINO, LITTLE HORSE

KING PLEASURE, 1976

WORLDS

AT A CONVENT SCHOOL NORTH OF PARIS:

JOSEPHSVILLE

"HAWTHORN AND WAXWINGS"

BECAUSE THE NIGHT WAS BOISTEROUS, HAPPY, YOU

A LIGHT

CODA: A PHOTO, NOT A SLIDE

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Corkery, Christopher Jane Love Took the Words

ISBN:

9781639820740