In this Book
- On Tact, & the Made Up World
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Kuhl House Poets
Michele Glazer’s poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just what is, but how it is. The poems trouble borders—between self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate; between physical states in processes of decay; and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem, resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism.
The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, greater meaning: “What is looked at is changed / what is looked for is gone.” From this collision of passion and severity come poems that are strange and darkly beautiful.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-v
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- One
- In the lava tube
- p. 10
- Flüchtling
- pp. 11-12
- Worm, (to a rumor of lilies)
- pp. 15-18
- Two
- Distances at Sea
- pp. 24-25
- The rabbi is pressed into service
- pp. 27-28
- Beds of Clandestine
- pp. 31-32
- To the better view
- pp. 33-34
- The least part best
- p. 35
- Say the Unseen
- p. 36
- What so ever you
- p. 37
- bright things
- p. 38
- Three
- Fungus, with Daguerreotype
- pp. 41-43
- aperture with wings
- p. 44
- Green Animals
- pp. 48-49
- Metonymic Sonnet
- p. 50
- To the rückenfigur
- pp. 51-52
- Child and Woman
- p. 54
- Notes on tact & the made up world
- pp. 57-59
- How, then,
- pp. 60-61
- Notes, List of Kuhl House Poets
- pp. 67-69
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2010
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