
The Subtle Bodies
James McCorkle(Author)
Etruscan Press
Published on 13. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-0-9886922-3-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Subtle Bodies moves between lush landscapes and the violence imposed by humans upon the land, making contact with the world as it ebbs into a digitised silence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9886922-3-7 (9780988692237)
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James McCorkle grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, received his M.F.A. (Iowa Writer's Workshop) and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and currently teaches in the Africana Studies and First Year Seminar Programs at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York. He is the author of The Still Performance (a study of post-modern American poetry), the editor of Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry, and most recently, an associate editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry.
Evidences, his first poetry collection, was selected by Jorie Graham for 2003 the American Poetry Review / Honickman Award. He has received the Sarah Lawrence's Campbell Corner Poetry Award and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares and Web-Conjunctions. McCorkle's poems are by turns lyric and political, they rely on landscape and observation drawn from his childhood in Florida to his long residency in upstate New York. Jorie Graham, in citing McCorkle's Evidences, wrote in her introduction that in his poems "one feels the imagination push up and take the measure of the adversary-loss and destruction of the human and inhuman kind . . . . I do not believe it is possible to miss how brave this book is, how daring, and given over to beauty.”
Content
Contents
Fireflies 6
Expulsions 9
Verge of Summer 16
Set Theory 17
Allotropes 18
Cette Obscure Clarté Qui Tombe des Étoiles 20
Black River 23
Tree Line and Meadow 25
To Those Precincts 26
. . . . .
Autobiography 29
Late Morning, Verdant 31
Spring Fatalities 32
Wolf and Raven 34
Four Panels 36
Evening Apparition 41
After Plato 42
Blue-Jay, In Flight toward Pre-Emption 46
On Prokofiev's "The Death of Tybalt" 47
. . . . .
John Berryman 50
Listening to a Wasp in Mid-February 52
Access Memory 54
Evening as a Bessel Function 55
Cardinal 56
Autobiography 62
Hemlock 63
The Subtle Bodies 65
Reading Lu Yu during a Year of War 67
Notes 82
Fireflies 6
Expulsions 9
Verge of Summer 16
Set Theory 17
Allotropes 18
Cette Obscure Clarté Qui Tombe des Étoiles 20
Black River 23
Tree Line and Meadow 25
To Those Precincts 26
. . . . .
Autobiography 29
Late Morning, Verdant 31
Spring Fatalities 32
Wolf and Raven 34
Four Panels 36
Evening Apparition 41
After Plato 42
Blue-Jay, In Flight toward Pre-Emption 46
On Prokofiev's "The Death of Tybalt" 47
. . . . .
John Berryman 50
Listening to a Wasp in Mid-February 52
Access Memory 54
Evening as a Bessel Function 55
Cardinal 56
Autobiography 62
Hemlock 63
The Subtle Bodies 65
Reading Lu Yu during a Year of War 67
Notes 82