In this Book
- Study for Necessity
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
summary
“Kwiatek’s poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists’ worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Redon. Each is a ‘token of strangeness’ built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying what the poet calls the mind’s ‘lonesome flourish.’ Like entries in a recondite log, or the etchings, or tracks, of a complex consciousness, this work cannot help but identify its own material and spiritual corollaries: a bridle worn to threadbare, a voyage that ‘grows more & more captivating. More terse.’ It is, as one poem puts it, as if seeing / were a form of radiant / isolation. And yet the presence established over the course of the book is profoundly connective, rich with acute physical apprehension and charge. It moves under pressure toward its singular end, its very ‘necessity.’”—Emily Wilson, judge, 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Sea Below Rocks
- p. 1
- The Overseer
- p. 4
- Victoriana
- p. 7
- A Sad and Human Face
- p. 10
- Lieutenant Trakl
- p. 11
- Another World
- p. 12
- Summerlude
- p. 13
- Return of Orpheus
- p. 14
- Archeology
- p. 15
- Orpheus Singing
- p. 16
- Report to the King
- p. 19
- What’s a Start?
- p. 20
- Song of Experience
- p. 22
- A Cold Shine
- p. 23
- A Delicate Thing
- pp. 25-26
- Day for Night
- p. 30
- Drinking Up
- p. 32
- The Hermit
- p. 36
- In the Country
- pp. 38-39
- August Burial
- p. 40
- Madonna del Parto
- p. 44
- Miles to Go
- p. 46
- Horse & Train
- p. 48
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609383251
Related ISBN(s)
9781609383244
MARC Record
OCLC
902724888
Pages
71
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015