In this Book
- What Is Amazing
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and readers, reasoning their way to unreasonable conclusions. These poems try to understand how it is that we come to recognize and differentiate objects and beings, how wholly each is attached to its name, and which space reveals them. What Is Amazing delights in fully inhabiting its varied forms and voices, singing worlds that often coincide with our own.
Table of Contents
- i
- The Seaside!
- p. 3
- To Kew by Tram
- p. 9
- An Activity
- p. 11
- How Like an Island
- p. 12
- Talk Radio
- p. 14
- Such a Lovely Garden
- p. 19
- ii
- The Small Husband
- pp. 24-25
- The Angry Faun
- pp. 30-31
- In Accordance
- pp. 32-33
- The Spider
- p. 34
- Difficulties
- p. 35
- I Am Coming Over
- p. 36
- What Is Amazing
- pp. 39-42
- iii
- What Will Grow Here
- p. 45
- Happy and Glorious
- p. 46
- Parking Lot
- p. 47
- Go and Play Outside
- p. 48
- Some Combinations
- p. 49
- Ladies a Basket
- p. 51
- Infinitives
- p. 55
- Classic Hook Shape
- p. 57
- Directly at the Sun
- pp. 59-61
- A Long Life
- p. 62
- Acknowledgments
- p. 65
- About the Author
- p. 67