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Storm swimmer / Ernest Hilbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilbert, Ernest, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (90 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- In poems that celebrate survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters, Hilbert's eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water--what Melville called "the ungraspable phantom of life." "Ernest Hilbert's Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives."--Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of Heaven and judge.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Storm Swimmer
- 1.
- Pelagic
- Last Star
- In the Hidden Places
- Bound Demons
- December Issue
- Vertebrate
- 2.
- We Make Mountains So We May Move Them
- Stronghold
- Voltage Crackles at the Edge
- Laurel Hill
- Last Rites
- K 265
- 3.
- Air and Water
- She Abides with Me Still
- Riddle Me
- Martini Shot
- Demon
- West River Notebook
- Interlude-Weathering
- 4.
- On Cape Charles
- Visitations
- Spolia Opima
- From the Balcony on Heavy Metal Tribute Night at the Trocadero
- Range
- Drink Me
- 5.
- Union Lake
- Remains
- Scream Queen
- We Regret
- Appeal
- Monster-mania Con 44
- 6.
- Endless Mountains
- Lodge
- Great Egret over Lake Luxembourg
- EL CONQUISTADOR
- The Inlet
- In Paradisum
- 7.
- Alchemericana
- Salvaging
- Mineral Springs Trail
- Deep Shade
- In Salt Meadows
- Sole Unquiet Thing.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hilbert, Ernest Storm Swimmer
- ISBN:
- 9781574419023
- OCLC:
- 1346125411
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