University of Iowa Press, 2015 Paper: 978-1-60938-324-4 | eISBN: 978-1-60938-325-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3561.W48A6 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
“Kwiatek’s poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists’ worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Redon. Each is a ‘token of strangeness’ built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying what the poet calls the mind’s ‘lonesome flourish.’ Like entries in a recondite log, or the etchings, or tracks, of a complex consciousness, this work cannot help but identify its own material and spiritual corollaries: a bridle worn to threadbare, a voyage that ‘grows more & more captivating. More terse.’ It is, as one poem puts it, as if seeing / were a form of radiant / isolation. And yet the presence established over the course of the book is profoundly connective, rich with acute physical apprehension and charge. It moves under pressure toward its singular end, its very ‘necessity.’”—Emily Wilson, judge, 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JoEllen Kwiatek’s first book, Eleven Days Before Spring, was published by HarperCollins (1994). Among her awards and grants is a Pushcart Prize. She lives in West Valley, New York.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Sea Below Rocks
Landscape as Language
For Lo, I Come at Noonday
The Overseer
Daphne
Low Tide
Victoriana
A Walk in Daylight
Log:
A Sad and Human Face
Lieutenant Trakl
Another World
Summerlude
Return of Orpheus
Archeology
Orpheus Singing
A Lack of Brooding Shone
Headache
Report to the King
What’s a Start?
The Find
Song of Experience
A Cold Shine
Snowlight
A Delicate Thing
Muse
In The New York Times
Changed
Day for Night
Planet
Drinking Up
Growing
Thaw
To Autumn
The Hermit
Looking at Early Photographs
In the Country
August Burial
Urn Lake
Cloak
Wheatfield with Crows
Madonna del Parto
Ryder, Albert Pinkham
Miles to Go
Dear K—
Horse & Train
Lazarus
How Long Do You Mean to Be Content?
Mine
Answer
Notes
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University of Iowa Press, 2015 Paper: 978-1-60938-324-4 eISBN: 978-1-60938-325-1
“Kwiatek’s poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists’ worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Redon. Each is a ‘token of strangeness’ built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying what the poet calls the mind’s ‘lonesome flourish.’ Like entries in a recondite log, or the etchings, or tracks, of a complex consciousness, this work cannot help but identify its own material and spiritual corollaries: a bridle worn to threadbare, a voyage that ‘grows more & more captivating. More terse.’ It is, as one poem puts it, as if seeing / were a form of radiant / isolation. And yet the presence established over the course of the book is profoundly connective, rich with acute physical apprehension and charge. It moves under pressure toward its singular end, its very ‘necessity.’”—Emily Wilson, judge, 2014 Iowa Poetry Prize
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JoEllen Kwiatek’s first book, Eleven Days Before Spring, was published by HarperCollins (1994). Among her awards and grants is a Pushcart Prize. She lives in West Valley, New York.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Sea Below Rocks
Landscape as Language
For Lo, I Come at Noonday
The Overseer
Daphne
Low Tide
Victoriana
A Walk in Daylight
Log:
A Sad and Human Face
Lieutenant Trakl
Another World
Summerlude
Return of Orpheus
Archeology
Orpheus Singing
A Lack of Brooding Shone
Headache
Report to the King
What’s a Start?
The Find
Song of Experience
A Cold Shine
Snowlight
A Delicate Thing
Muse
In The New York Times
Changed
Day for Night
Planet
Drinking Up
Growing
Thaw
To Autumn
The Hermit
Looking at Early Photographs
In the Country
August Burial
Urn Lake
Cloak
Wheatfield with Crows
Madonna del Parto
Ryder, Albert Pinkham
Miles to Go
Dear K—
Horse & Train
Lazarus
How Long Do You Mean to Be Content?
Mine
Answer
Notes
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