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- Family System
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- 2012
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
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Winner of the 2012 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Elizabeth Willis
"Family System is one of the most specific and clarifying books of poetry I’ve ever read. It is filled with choices—made, to be made, not made—handled with a poetic understanding that what seems arbitrary will be inevitable when said with the right words while singing the right songs. This is a stand-out first book, introducing a first-rate original talent, doing powerful work, making quintessentially lyrical choices. Don’t miss this book.”
—Dara Wier
“It seems that Jack Christian’s brain is able to produce tiny lucid creatures, have them run and sprinkle over a map of an unknown world with joy, speed and delight. Even stranger, he’s somehow the spiritual offspring of very different ancestors: Pascal’s Esprit de Geometrie and Scandinavian mythology. ‘I was eulogizing a squirrel in a shoebox.’ Brilliant.”
—Tomaž Šalamun
"Family System is one of the most specific and clarifying books of poetry I’ve ever read. It is filled with choices—made, to be made, not made—handled with a poetic understanding that what seems arbitrary will be inevitable when said with the right words while singing the right songs. This is a stand-out first book, introducing a first-rate original talent, doing powerful work, making quintessentially lyrical choices. Don’t miss this book.”
—Dara Wier
“It seems that Jack Christian’s brain is able to produce tiny lucid creatures, have them run and sprinkle over a map of an unknown world with joy, speed and delight. Even stranger, he’s somehow the spiritual offspring of very different ancestors: Pascal’s Esprit de Geometrie and Scandinavian mythology. ‘I was eulogizing a squirrel in a shoebox.’ Brilliant.”
—Tomaž Šalamun
Table of Contents
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- ONE
- FAMILY SYSTEM
- p. 3
- A CIRCUMFERENCE
- p. 5
- GLADETOWN CEMETERY
- p. 11
- RURAL MANAGEMENT
- p. 12
- I AM YOURS
- p. 13
- A GIANT REALM
- p. 17
- POEM OF MY HOPE
- p. 19
- TWO
- MORE LIKE A FACTORY
- pp. 25-26
- RESPONSIBILITY
- p. 30
- A CATARACT
- p. 36
- LET’S COLLABORATE
- pp. 37-38
- THREE
- MOURNING PICTURE
- p. 42
- TWELVE SONGS
- p. 44
- OUR AIR IS MORE A BRANCH
- pp. 47-48
- WE’RE CHANGING IRONY
- p. 49
- EARLY SPRING
- p. 50
- NORTHAMPTON ECSTATIC
- p. 51
- ANOTHER EDEN
- p. 52
- GOTHIC PEOPLES INSTITUTE
- pp. 53-54
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 55-56
- Production Notes
- p. 57
Additional Information
ISBN
9781885635280
Related ISBN(s)
9781885635273
MARC Record
OCLC
817565884
Pages
57
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012