Bonfire Opera
Poems
Erschienen am 14. April 2020
97 Seiten
978-0-8229-8728-4 (ISBN)
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Winner, 2021 Northern California Book Award | Finalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, "bee-stung, drunk" in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, "bee-stung, drunk" in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. She teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Scrub Jays
- I
- Berkeley
- Worlds in Worlds
- Service Station
- The Watch
- Threshold
- Bonfire Opera
- Hawks
- II
- Omens
- The Grass
- Rites of Winter
- O Darkness
- The Bedouin Dress
- Dressing for the Burial
- The Cat
- Working in the Garden, I Think of My Son
- Coyote
- III
- Bird
- Chance
- Iris
- Reading My Valentine's Poem to Frank X. Gaspar
- Sexting
- Trouble
- Detour
- Don't Tempt the Monks
- Surfer Girl
- IV
- Ashbuds
- Red Tights
- Mosquitoes
- Edible
- Blackberries
- Dragonflies
- Satin and Lace
- Newtonian Nocturne
- Elegy in an Orchard
- V
- Dust
- Duende
- Feeding the Worms
- Egg
- Ghost Child
- Palm Trees
- Improvement
- Small Kindnesses
- Passion Fish
- Aubade with a Chance of Rain
- Stone
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
