In this Book
- Wayward
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Since her early poems, Katharine Coles has been known as a poet who isn’t afraid to tackle big subjects that occupy the intersections of art and science, including how we know what is true (if we do). Driven by her insatiable curiosity and relying on a use of form and elision so deft it amounts to sleight-of-hand, Coles in her seventh book, Wayward, brings these big questions into small spaces, moving the reader at mind-speed through brief meditations on love, marriage, and family; the permeable boundaries of the self; death; and perception. Though her subjects are deeply serious, Coles’ primary tools for addressing them include her wry wit and agile intelligence, which, taking nothing for granted, she deploys to examine our basic assumptions about the world and our experience within it. As always, Coles here uses technical skill to move her thinking in new directions—many of them at once.
Table of Contents
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- Halftitle
- pp. 1-2
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 5-6
- Contents
- pp. 7-11
- ∞
- pp. 13-14
- How We Sing
- p. 15
- Wayward
- pp. 18-19
- The Archimedes Palimpsest
- pp. 20-21
- Annunciation
- p. 22
- The New Day
- p. 23
- New Clothes
- p. 24
- Submersible
- p. 25
- Knowing
- p. 27
- Rip Tide
- p. 30
- In Store
- p. 31
- Interior
- p. 33
- Thirst
- pp. 34-35
- Empty
- pp. 36-37
- Breath
- p. 38
- On Sappho
- p. 39
- ∞
- p. 43
- Narrative
- p. 44
- Misreading
- p. 46
- Bewilder
- pp. 48-49
- Landscape with Alchemist
- pp. 50-51
- From Space
- p. 53
- Sensible
- p. 54
- Denial
- pp. 58-59
- Once
- p. 60
- In Our Twenty-fifth Summer
- pp. 62-63
- Longevity
- p. 64
- Carnal
- p. 65
- Kept in Mind
- p. 66
- Either They Were Human
- pp. 70-71
- Canem Nigrum
- pp. 72-73
- Ice Age
- pp. 74-75
- ∞
- pp. 76-77
- Self-Portrait with Nightfall
- pp. 78-79
- Marriage
- p. 82
- Memory
- p. 83
- Rain
- p. 84
- Equinox
- p. 85
- Asleep
- p. 87
- Lunar Eclipse
- pp. 90-91
- Hive
- p. 92
- Hawk
- p. 93
- Hideout
- p. 94
- August
- p. 96
- Matchless
- p. 97
- Shell
- p. 98
- Dream
- p. 101
- In the Garden
- p. 102
- Landscape with Bodies
- pp. 103-104
- Away
- p. 105
- ∞
- p. 106
- Notes
- pp. 107-111
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597098243
Related ISBN(s)
9781597098953
MARC Record
OCLC
1128000500
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2019-11-20
Language
English
Open Access
No