Model of a City in Civil War
Will be published approx. on 21. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-941411-02-5 (ISBN)
Description
Men carry a mattress retrieved
from a dumpster past the flooded
foundations of an unfinished
high-rise, an old woman catches
a pigeon in the folds of her dress
the dead smile and rise from swimming
pools or stand at attention
on stamps. The landscape can't believe
it's real-there is no ground
beneath it, like what mirrors do.
Adam Day is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and Kentucky Arts Council, and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, the Iowa Review, and others.
from a dumpster past the flooded
foundations of an unfinished
high-rise, an old woman catches
a pigeon in the folds of her dress
the dead smile and rise from swimming
pools or stand at attention
on stamps. The landscape can't believe
it's real-there is no ground
beneath it, like what mirrors do.
Adam Day is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and Kentucky Arts Council, and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, the Iowa Review, and others.
Reviews / Votes
"Adam Day's honest debut is written with people in mind. His collection is crowded; people often throw elbows outside of the poems' pages. It is like every city we've been in and in that way it is comforting. We have a guide who walks us through."--The Volta "Adam Day's honest debut is written with people in mind. His collection is crowded; people often throw elbows outside of the poems' pages. It is like every city we've been in and in that way it is comforting. We have a guide who walks us through."
--The Volta
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Louisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941411-02-5 (9781941411025)
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Adam Day: Adam Day is the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. His work has appeared in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Iowa Review, and others.
Content
I.
WE LIVED ABOVE THE KEY SHOP
WATER FROM THE SAME SOURCE
THE KINGHORSE BUTCHERTOWN BRAWL
HIDING AGAIN IN LONDON
SARCLET
A PLATEAU OF EXCELLENCE
WINTER NIGHTS
THE MAN OF WARTS
HIS DEMENTIA
A SMALL ROOM
WASHING FATHER'S FEET
IN MOURNING
CLEAN LINES, DIFFUSE LIGHTING
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
SMOKE
II.
SLEEPING WITH UNCLE LESTER
COMING IN FROM THE BACK PORCH AT NIGHT
THE CHILDREN, THE GRASS
ROMANTIC CONCEIT
THE LEAVING
TIME AWAY
THE DINNER PARTY
WINTER INVENTORY
ABANDONED HOUSE
THE INSOMNIAC
THE COW
III.
BLIND ATTIS
STAG HOLOFERNES
LETTERS ON SPACE AND HANDS
FAMILY ROMANCE
FIELD GUIDE
THE REVOLUTION
ANOOSH'S OBITUARY FOR HIMSELF, TO HIS SON
SNOW IN A BRICK COURTYARD
DIORAMA - (SCARLET AND LIVER)
FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH KENZABURO OE, WITH STAGE DIRECTIONS
FROM SYNGE'S RIDERS TO THE SEA
WE LIVED ABOVE THE KEY SHOP
WATER FROM THE SAME SOURCE
THE KINGHORSE BUTCHERTOWN BRAWL
HIDING AGAIN IN LONDON
SARCLET
A PLATEAU OF EXCELLENCE
WINTER NIGHTS
THE MAN OF WARTS
HIS DEMENTIA
A SMALL ROOM
WASHING FATHER'S FEET
IN MOURNING
CLEAN LINES, DIFFUSE LIGHTING
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
SMOKE
II.
SLEEPING WITH UNCLE LESTER
COMING IN FROM THE BACK PORCH AT NIGHT
THE CHILDREN, THE GRASS
ROMANTIC CONCEIT
THE LEAVING
TIME AWAY
THE DINNER PARTY
WINTER INVENTORY
ABANDONED HOUSE
THE INSOMNIAC
THE COW
III.
BLIND ATTIS
STAG HOLOFERNES
LETTERS ON SPACE AND HANDS
FAMILY ROMANCE
FIELD GUIDE
THE REVOLUTION
ANOOSH'S OBITUARY FOR HIMSELF, TO HIS SON
SNOW IN A BRICK COURTYARD
DIORAMA - (SCARLET AND LIVER)
FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH KENZABURO OE, WITH STAGE DIRECTIONS
FROM SYNGE'S RIDERS TO THE SEA