Sunday Rising
Published on 1. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-61186-068-9 (ISBN)
Description
Wallace Stevens, in his poem "A Postcard from the Volcano," writes, "left what we felt / at what we saw." Patricia Clark's stunning fourth poetry collection, Sunday Rising, is full of such moments, carefully wrought and mined for their resonance. Haunting human forms rise from the underworld, seeking to communicate, longing for connection. In language as resounding and evocative as the subjects it describes, Sunday Rising questions the past, human relationships, the meaning of loss, and the author's own heritage. With landscapes as familiar as Michigan and as distant as the shores of Western Europe, these poems bring to light the cracks and fissures in our world, amid lyric exhalations rising like clouds above the birds, trees, and coastlines, language capturing the poet's spiritual longing as well as moments of passion and sorrow. From the first poem to the last, an intimate relationship with the physical world emerges. Its teachings, consolations, utterances, and echoes comprise a sense of discovery. The ethereal and often spiritual practice of seeing and taking note is celebrated, whether this process yields gemstones or ore, or words wrought into the music and imagery of poetry.
Reviews / Votes
Ravined and swooping, observant and questioning, musical and capacious, knowledgeable, playful, and precise, Clark's poems have the texture--and range--of life.--Jane Hirshfield, author of Come, Thief
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-068-9 (9781611860689)
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Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University.
Content
Contents
I.
Risen from the Underworld
Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil
Oscine
Tomorrow Marks Six Years
Aeromancy
Winter Nests
Energy Economics
Plane of Last Scattering
Ravine Goddess, August
Quebrada
Anti-Love Poem
My Mother's Feline Companion
Wreath for the Red Admiral
After Franz Marc's The Red Deer (1912)
Elegy for Wilma
II.
Until It Speaks
Rocks and Minerals
Tent Caterpillars
Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed
Air Like a Sea
Near Paradise, Michigan: Brown Cabin, Roof with a Green Stripe
Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Dead Man's Fingers
Viewshed
Poem Ending with a Line from Transtroemer
Late Letter to Hugo
Helleborus Orientalis
Wood Not Yet Out
Kingston Plains
By Clear and Clear: Riverside, Midday
After Hiroshige
Heron, in Sunlight
Burial Underwear
III.
Olentangy Elegy
IV.
Sunday Rising
Cento
Ghosts That Need Consoling
Missing
Depressed by a Gray Mood on Tuesday, I Step Up and See a Sparrow
If Riptides Were a Gateway
Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue
Near the North Sea
It Was Raining in Middelburg
Botanical Beliefs
Tell Me Again Why Western State Hospital for the Criminally Insane Should Not Frighten Me
Psalm to Sing on a Frozen Morning
Where Pilgrims Pass
River Villanelle
Across Barbed Wire
Math, Architecture
Stowaway in the Arugula
Exile Song
Acknowledgments
Notes
I.
Risen from the Underworld
Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil
Oscine
Tomorrow Marks Six Years
Aeromancy
Winter Nests
Energy Economics
Plane of Last Scattering
Ravine Goddess, August
Quebrada
Anti-Love Poem
My Mother's Feline Companion
Wreath for the Red Admiral
After Franz Marc's The Red Deer (1912)
Elegy for Wilma
II.
Until It Speaks
Rocks and Minerals
Tent Caterpillars
Near Paradise, Michigan: Crushed
Air Like a Sea
Near Paradise, Michigan: Brown Cabin, Roof with a Green Stripe
Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Dead Man's Fingers
Viewshed
Poem Ending with a Line from Transtroemer
Late Letter to Hugo
Helleborus Orientalis
Wood Not Yet Out
Kingston Plains
By Clear and Clear: Riverside, Midday
After Hiroshige
Heron, in Sunlight
Burial Underwear
III.
Olentangy Elegy
IV.
Sunday Rising
Cento
Ghosts That Need Consoling
Missing
Depressed by a Gray Mood on Tuesday, I Step Up and See a Sparrow
If Riptides Were a Gateway
Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue
Near the North Sea
It Was Raining in Middelburg
Botanical Beliefs
Tell Me Again Why Western State Hospital for the Criminally Insane Should Not Frighten Me
Psalm to Sing on a Frozen Morning
Where Pilgrims Pass
River Villanelle
Across Barbed Wire
Math, Architecture
Stowaway in the Arugula
Exile Song
Acknowledgments
Notes