But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Publication Year: 2012

But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges at a time when science is discovering more and more about the mystical particles that make up our universe and our bodies. From tidal forces and prairie burns to ruminations on racial identity while standing at the foot of Mount Rushmore, these poems chart a travelogue through mental and physical landscapes and suggest that place, time, love, and bodies are all shifts in the "undulate cosmos." Straddling the lyrical and experimental, these poems conjure and connect the cosmological, the carnal, and the personal in a country—and a universe—that is gobbling itself into oblivion. But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise is in love with the universe of language—Its forms, its sounds, and even its static.

Published by: Red Hen Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9781597093279
Print-ISBN-13: 9781597091688
Print-ISBN-10: 1597091685

Page Count: 104
Publication Year: 2012

Edition: First

But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments

Contents

Part One

The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces

I Meet My Father at the End of America

Regards, from Middle Country

In Leaving My Lover Teaches Me Half a Bible Story

Medicine Lake

In the Democracy of Goods,

Behind the Christian Door

Moon Illusion Eclogue

Apocrypha

The Night My Dead Dog Comes Back

Golfing in the Dark with Old Man Heart

Circles in the Sky

Queen City Fractal

The Science of Heart

Part Two

Account of the Apparitions

Ghost Town

The New New Thing

I Was a Barking Dog

Pastoral for Effective Teaching

But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise

Steel City Fractal

Giclée Self-Portrait with Mount Rushmore

Am Looking For

Why I Want to Be a Tow Truck Driver

Part Three

Hinterland Ham Radio Signals

“I am trying as hard as a human”

In the Democracy of Afflictions,

Phenomena Not Foreseen

Satori

Rex Mundi, or ,Watching My Father Paint What He Knows of the Horizon

What the Elk Told Me

Jack Mountain Fractal

Parting the Smoke Curtain onto a Curtain of Smoke

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Notes

About the Author

Research Areas

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