Upper Level Disturbances
by Kevin Goodan
University Press of Colorado, 2012
eISBN: 978-1-885635-26-6 | Paper: 978-1-885635-20-4
Library of Congress Classification PS3607.O563U77 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
eISBN: 978-1-885635-26-6 | Paper: 978-1-885635-20-4
Library of Congress Classification PS3607.O563U77 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Goodan earned his BA from the University of Montana and worked as a firefighter for ten years in the U.S. Forest Service before receiving his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His previous poetry collections are In the Ghost-House Acquainted and Winter Tenor. He currently resides in Idaho and is assistant professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College.
REVIEWS
"Kevin Goodan's poems embody a quiet, incandescent fierceness, fueled by loss, but still able to seek and find a place to dwell, despite the upper level disturbances he encounters in the disappearance of rivers, the uncertainty of-and fissures in-language, the elusiveness of a god, and the diminishment of rural America. These poems are raw and hyper-honest in their regard of a world in which 'every moment is a landscape / We enter, depart, at the same time.'
—Christopher Arigo, author of Lit Interim and In the Archives
—Christopher Arigo, author of Lit Interim and In the Archives
"In Kevin Goodan's Upper Level Disturbances, we are given the 'whispered home to the lightning' where "the levees sing of snake-grass burning." With a steady hand, Goodan unfurls the line into the rough and jagged physicality of the world until the sublime transcends its earthly frame. These are hard-earned poems, brought back to us from a difficult land. They are 'prayers . . . adorned with rivets of fire' within which the 'laws of nature / Determine all the grief one eye can hold.' Upper Level Disturbances is one helluva good book, and I recommend it highly."
—Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet, and Phantom Noise
—Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet, and Phantom Noise
"The gentle, consistent descriptions of the natural world are what drive this collection forward. The conclusions and abstractions are sparse, which lends them weight. However, this is not a heavy book, despite the aloneness, the ghosts and the carcasses. It is reminiscent of how the senses come alive when in an environment devoid of peoples and how the sense of tragedy in the destruction of things becomes a merely a human perspective."
—Theresé Samson Wenham,NewPages.com
—Theresé Samson Wenham,NewPages.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Come Take These Words From Me
A Sigh For Avila
What Indices Have Blurred Me
Showings
We Pass And They Pass And Slow The World Abides
August Singularity
Looking For My Father: Christopher Smart, John Clare
Recovery
Out of Brightness Hailstones, Coals of Fire
Thus I Am Called, Thresher To The Fields
Touching Home
Remembering The Family Homestead, Which Is Now An Industrial Park
How The Soil Dampens For The Loss Of Thee
Untitled
She Called Your Name Over And Over Then Died They Said
In The Lexicon Of Rain
Soft, As When A Body Struck
As I Set Merton Back Into The Fire
Sacredotes Domini
A Man Enters The Room He Has Forgotten
Album
Untitled
Summer's Ornament
September
Patience
Visitation At The Ashford Motel
Untitled
Trying to Remember
The Flame-Front I Maintain Is For This Tinder Only
Do My Bells Ring Hourly In The White Air That Surrounds You?
Untitled
Something Is Always Saying Hello
Now
Last Month Before Winter
Listening to Arvo Part's Fur Alina
Acknowledgments
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