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- Sunday Rising
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
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Wallace Stevens, in his poem “A Postcard from the Volcano,” writes, “left what we felt / at what we saw.” Patricia Clark’s stunning fourth poetry collection, Sunday Rising, is full of such moments, carefully wrought and mined for their resonance. Haunting human forms rise from the underworld, seeking to communicate, longing for connection. In language as resounding and evocative as the subjects it describes, Sunday Rising questions the past, human relationships, the meaning of loss, and the author’s own heritage. With landscapes as familiar as Michigan and as distant as the shores of Western Europe, these poems bring to light the cracks and fissures in our world, amid lyric exhalations rising like clouds above the birds, trees, and coastlines, language capturing the poet’s spiritual longing as well as moments of passion and sorrow. From the first poem to the last, an intimate relationship with the physical world emerges. Its teachings, consolations, utterances, and echoes comprise a sense of discovery. The ethereal and often spiritual practice of seeing and taking note is celebrated, whether this process yields gemstones or ore, or words wrought into the music and imagery of poetry.
Table of Contents
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- I.
- Risen from the Underworld
- pp. 3-4
- Winter Nests
- p. 10
- Energy Economics
- p. 11
- Anti-Love Poem
- p. 15
- Elegy for Wilma
- pp. 19-20
- II.
- Until It Speaks
- pp. 23-24
- Rocks and Minerals
- pp. 25-26
- Tent Caterpillars
- pp. 27-28
- Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed
- pp. 29-30
- Air Like a Sea
- p. 31
- Late Letter to Hugo
- p. 37
- Helleborus Orientalis
- pp. 38-39
- Wood Not Yet Out
- p. 40
- Kingston Plains
- p. 41
- After Hiroshige
- pp. 43-44
- Heron, in Sunlight
- p. 45
- Burial Underwear
- pp. 46-47
- III.
- Olentangy Elegy
- pp. 51-60
- IV.
- Sunday Rising
- pp. 63-64
- Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue
- pp. 70-71
- Near the North Sea
- pp. 72-73
- Botanical Beliefs
- p. 75
- Where Pilgrims Pass
- p. 78
- River Villanelle
- p. 79
- Across Barbed Wire
- pp. 80-81
- Math, Architecture
- p. 82
- Stowaway in the Arugula
- pp. 83-84
- Exile Song
- p. 85
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 87-88
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609173548
Related ISBN(s)
9781611860689, 9781628951172, 9781628961171
MARC Record
OCLC
817565870
Pages
100
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013