In this Book
- Furious Lullaby
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades – dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. The lovers suffer a metaphysical crisis, seeking to know what is good, what is evil, and how to truly know the difference. Knowing, however, invites the terrible into their world. The Devil, a seductive trickster, haunts the landscape as a voice who dares each inquisitor to learn about mortality, morality, the beautiful, and the unspeakable through direct experience. Furious Lullaby offers a departure from the lighter prose poetry of de la Paz’s Names above Houses and preserves the author’s concern with the nature of human grace.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Hour of Dawn
- pp. 4-17
- Constricting Aubade
- pp. 7-20
- The Devil's Book
- pp. 11-13
- The Devil's Hour
- pp. 17-30
- Penitence Essay
- pp. 20-33
- Aubde with Bread for the Sparrows
- pp. 21-34
- My Dearest Apostacy,
- pp. 22-35
- My Dearest Conflict,
- pp. 27-40
- What the Devil Said
- pp. 28-41
- What the Eye Said
- pp. 29-42
- What the Scapula Said
- pp. 30-43
- On the Pores of the Flesh
- pp. 31-44
- On the Fenestra Ovalis
- pp. 33-46
- What the Ear Said
- pp. 39-52
- What the Dead Said
- pp. 40-53
- What the Devil Said
- pp. 41-54
- On the Epiderrmis
- pp. 42-43
- On the Motions of Death
- pp. 44-57
- My Dearest Transgression,
- pp. 46-59
- Messengers
- pp. 51-64
- Mysteries Essay
- pp. 52-65
- My Dearest Recklessness,
- pp. 53-66
- Widening Aubade
- pp. 56-59
- Prayer Essay
- pp. 61-74
- My Dearest Regret,
- pp. 64-77
- Back Cover
- p. 82
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2007