
In Late Light
Brian Swann(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 10. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-4214-0856-9 (ISBN)
Description
There is a clearing by a certain stone where images flow and are worth stopping for. I have stayed there almost all day in silence until night remembered what belonged to it and its shadows started to take back its own. I've found it hard to walk away as starlight infused daisies and the stone itself began to feel like a star so, although what I have done with my life may not be much, for a while it seemed to be in line. The poems of In Late Light situate objects and experiences (both large and small, concrete and abstract) within Brian Swann's perspective of the natural world. Sixty-two poems presented in four sections explore his life-from early days to the present-evoking friends and family on two continents. His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries.
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[Brian Swann's] work enables us to begin to understand a world which is not merely a reflection of our anxieties and desires, but which is truly different in the signals it sends to us through other people and other entities. -- James Sutherland Smith Stand MagazineMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
135 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-0856-9 (9781421408569)
DOI
10.1353/book.22481
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Brian Swann is the author of several collections of poems, most recently Autumn Road, winner of The Ohio State University Press/ The Journal Award and Snow House, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Pleiades Press/LSU Press.
Content
I. Temenos
Worlds
In Line
Rocks
This Place
Transubstantiation
Temenos
The Garden
As If
Click Song
For an Anonymous Thrush
A Typology of Birds
II. Opening the Dark
Hathor
Moonlight
Peel
Land of Flint
Correspondences
Opening the Dark
Pity Me
Old Men
Lily
Mangoes
Moth
Repayment
Ghost Image
The Amazon
The Knife
The Obsidian Mirror
Beyond
The Drowned Boy
Night sky with Figures
The Stranger
III. Ghost Dance
Grandfather Clock
The Pit
Rag and Bone
Time Saver
Floating
Light
The Lake
Identity
The Waves
Ghost Dance
Strange Flowers
Longinus on the Bowery
Loneliness
Tropical Fish
Firmament
Over the Moon
IV. Making It Out
The Rill
The Gods
The Whistlet and His Dog
The Feather
Making It Back
Making It Out
Strangeness
The Horses
The Cricket
The Sky
How I Understand Eternity
Tableau
Magdalenian
Masks
Cetus
Acknowledgments
Worlds
In Line
Rocks
This Place
Transubstantiation
Temenos
The Garden
As If
Click Song
For an Anonymous Thrush
A Typology of Birds
II. Opening the Dark
Hathor
Moonlight
Peel
Land of Flint
Correspondences
Opening the Dark
Pity Me
Old Men
Lily
Mangoes
Moth
Repayment
Ghost Image
The Amazon
The Knife
The Obsidian Mirror
Beyond
The Drowned Boy
Night sky with Figures
The Stranger
III. Ghost Dance
Grandfather Clock
The Pit
Rag and Bone
Time Saver
Floating
Light
The Lake
Identity
The Waves
Ghost Dance
Strange Flowers
Longinus on the Bowery
Loneliness
Tropical Fish
Firmament
Over the Moon
IV. Making It Out
The Rill
The Gods
The Whistlet and His Dog
The Feather
Making It Back
Making It Out
Strangeness
The Horses
The Cricket
The Sky
How I Understand Eternity
Tableau
Magdalenian
Masks
Cetus
Acknowledgments