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- The Many Woods of Grief: Poems
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
- Series: Juniper Prize for Poetry
summary
In this striking debut volume, Lucas Farrell offers a lyrical and illuminating field guide to the flora and fauna of “worlds just out of reach.” With the precision and detail of an Audubon sketch, he turns his naturalist’s eye to the vast landscape of human emotion—all the while affirming “how real this world we live in / must be to live in.”
Journeying ever outward, from the achingly ordinary to the mysterious “land where there is no land,” the narrator of this collection, equal parts pastoralist and surrealist, explores the vivid in-betweens—between love and loss, hilarity and despair, wild and domestic, real and imagined. Hungry, expressive, and original, these poems glean light from even the darkest of fields.From "Further Along Now"Further along the curves of gesture, the delicateapostrophe, in the tongues of muted suns, we'll findourselves in a clearing, in a meadow of ancient grass,picking apart what has long been picked apart. Furtheralong, the compliments, the tweezers and logic, thelaboratory of hard hats and felt pens and hard headsand clipboards hanging from sky's bloody fender, birddroppings steaming calligraphic so long as the cloudsbecome clouds become clouds and amazed we see insuch preventable warfare our own substancesunchanging. Fountains of ash too diffuse to interpret,too complex to diagnose, I quote the many woods ofgrief, too far alone, too deep.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- We Are All of Us Nearly Home
- pp. 1-2
- Part:I
- The Last Arctic
- pp. 6-7
- Generation of Bird
- pp. 10-18
- Sad Topology of a B-Movie Love Tryst
- pp. 19-20
- The Accordionist
- pp. 23-24
- The Dual-Shade of Six-Prong
- pp. 26-32
- Part:II
- Logic of Rawhide
- pp. 34-36
- Regarding Rain
- pp. 37-43
- To the Visionary
- p. 44
- Biography of Creek
- p. 50
- Whensoever It Snows, My Vermont
- pp. 52-53
- Conversation
- p. 54
- By Way of Apology
- pp. 55-56
- The Pointillists
- p. 59
- Further Along Now
- pp. 63-69
- Rock Creek, Pre-Dawn
- p. 71
- Rock Creek, Pre-Dawn
- p. 72
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 75-76
Additional Information
ISBN
9781613761830
Related ISBN(s)
9781558498990
MARC Record
OCLC
794700511
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No