The Sense Record
Published on 25. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-876857-93-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Against Aubade". Should morning's snubbed forsaken purpose come in love's complacent orbit to relent and to our bid for endless time succumb could we believe ourselves the more content? Invention may give credence to a thought ridiculous, or better yet banal should in a wishful prison it be caught dissembling fear beneath the bacchanal. Alone, the mind can store old years anew, with furnishings our Eros will forsake without concern, the watchman's cry rings true my love, we should no longer lie awake but stellar-like in darkness drift compelled our matter's myth in time shall be dispelled.
Reviews / Votes
The Sense Record breaks every contemporary experimentalist rule. Rather than spare and fragmentary, Moxley's work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular as an unstable linguistic construct, she features it in almost every poem, both as herself and as a relative position open to everyone. And rather than problematize meaning, Moxley has things to say and actually says them. -- Cole Swensen She recharges old forms by dismantling the archaisms and replacing them with her own uses of language. It's lyric synthesis through a kind of dream narrative, only that dream world brings with it real questions of how to live here and now. -- Dale SmithMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Applecross, WA
Australia
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-876857-93-6 (9781876857936)
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Person
Jennifer Moxley was born in 1964 and grew up in San Diego, California. She edited The Impercipient magazine and with her partner, Steve Evans, The Impercipient Lecture Series. Since 1997, she has served as poetry editor for The Baf?er magazine. In addition to her US, Canadian, and British publications, her poetry has been translated into Norwegian, Czech, Swedish and French. She lives in Orono, Maine where she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.
Content
Grain of the Cutaway Insight
A Transom over Death's Door
On This Side Nothing
Mother Night
Stem of the Trees of Orestes
Impervious to Starlight
Where Was I Going
The Second Winter
"Difficult of Access"
Aide-Memoire
Behind the Orbits
The Best American Poetry
Fixed Idea
Out of the Cradle Endlessly
The Ambition of Art
Fear of an Empty Life
Little Brick Walk
Sport of Chance
Against Aubade
The Lock
AEolian Harp
Still Present
Soleil Cou Coupe
The Critique
The Easter Lesson
To Those Who Would Equate the Public with Themselves
The Sense Record
The Occasion
The Just Real
A Transom over Death's Door
On This Side Nothing
Mother Night
Stem of the Trees of Orestes
Impervious to Starlight
Where Was I Going
The Second Winter
"Difficult of Access"
Aide-Memoire
Behind the Orbits
The Best American Poetry
Fixed Idea
Out of the Cradle Endlessly
The Ambition of Art
Fear of an Empty Life
Little Brick Walk
Sport of Chance
Against Aubade
The Lock
AEolian Harp
Still Present
Soleil Cou Coupe
The Critique
The Easter Lesson
To Those Who Would Equate the Public with Themselves
The Sense Record
The Occasion
The Just Real