In this Book
- Crocus
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
WhetherAligned with the mechanismwhereby the spirit is borne aloftthrough song comes againthe question: whether. And not soothedso much as opened by the boysoprano's Sanctus, what movesin the mind as the throat constrictsin sympathy, one note peeledfrom the last, fine as paper slippedfrom a garlic bulb, veined,translucent, is whether-as ifwound through the spiralingamplitude, purpled, fretted,one voice suspendedin concentration of prayer or terrorwills itself above faltering,more perfect since time mustsoon break it. And made it.Whether and by whatever impossiblearrangement of stars, harmonies,correspondences through whichthe music finds the spirit and likea blade slits and releases,circulates the questionthrough the phrase, the delicateengine-as if it matters: the songrises, everything goes with it.The poems in Crocus take as their starting points the interior universes created by myth, art, andmemory, and through the exploration of these terrains create new ways of understanding the ordinary.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part I
- The Exile’s Tale
- pp. 3-4
- The Raspberry Room
- p. 10
- Inheritance
- p. 15
- Keeping House
- pp. 16-17
- The Older Man
- p. 18
- The Talaria
- pp. 19-20
- Part II
- The Revenant
- p. 25
- The Bog Body
- pp. 26-27
- The Riddle
- pp. 32-33
- Cold Front
- p. 35
- The Ministry of Snow
- p. 41
- A Walking Tour
- p. 43
- The Lost World
- pp. 44-45
- Part III
- The Current
- pp. 49-50
- The Alice Experiment
- pp. 51-56
- The Creation of Rain
- p. 60
- Despite Myself
- pp. 61-62
- Unreliable Clock
- p. 63
- The Grassland
- pp. 64-65
- At the Window
- p. 66
- Describing the Bliss
- p. 67
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823247639
Related ISBN(s)
9780823227303
MARC Record
OCLC
794702327
Pages
78
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No