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- Bright Existence
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
summary
The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent Death Tratates, offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter. Informed in part by Gnostic concepts of the separate soul in search of its divine origins ("spirit held by matter"). This dualistic vision is cast in contemporary terms and seeks resolution of these tensions through acceptance.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Little Furnace
- p. 1
- I. Twelve Dawns
- Dark Existence
- p. 6
- Black Series
- p. 7
- The Servant
- p. 8
- December Shadow
- p. 9
- January Dawn
- p. 10
- March Dawn
- p. 11
- Blossoms Appearing
- p. 12
- Every Life
- p. 13
- First Thought
- pp. 15-16
- II. Dark Matter
- Mighty Forms
- p. 19
- Holding On
- p. 25
- Recycling Center
- pp. 26-27
- Sorrow of Matter
- pp. 30-31
- Several Errands
- pp. 33-34
- (interruption)
- p. 35
- Dark Matter
- pp. 36-37
- Toll Collector
- pp. 39-40
- III. Gnostic Heaven
- Gnostic Heaven
- pp. 43-44
- Meridian Plinth
- pp. 49-50
- Autumn Moon
- pp. 51-55
- (interruption)
- p. 56
- Steinberg Case
- pp. 57-61
- Small Spaces
- p. 62
- untitled fragment
- p. 63
- untitled fragment
- p. 64
- untitled fragment
- p. 65
- untitled fragment
- p. 66
- untitled fragment
- p. 67
- IV. Bright Existence
- Trapped Light
- p. 73
- Vast Fluttering
- pp. 74-76
- Almost Shadow
- p. 77
- Spare World
- pp. 78-80
- (interruption)
- p. 81
- Branch, Scraping
- pp. 82-83
- Archaic Wanderings
- p. 84
- Torn Shadow
- pp. 85-87
- Marshy Area
- p. 88
- Useful Shadow
- pp. 89-90
- Luminous Textures
- pp. 91-93
- Empty Shadow
- pp. 94-95
- Bright Existence
- p. 96
- The Snakeskin
- p. 99
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819572028
Related ISBN(s)
9780819522047
MARC Record
OCLC
842269938
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No