Reveille
Poems
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2015
73 pages
978-1-61075-559-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Reveille a man suffers fits of supernatural coughing, flytraps attack a child, a moray haunts a waterbed, and the prodigal son stalks his local brothel in a pair of lionhide pajamas. These poems survey their host of holy objects and exotic creatures the way one might the emblems in a dream: curious of their meanings but reluctant to interpret them and simplify their mystery. Theologically playful, rhetorically sophisticated, and formally ambitious, Reveille is rooted in awe and driven by the impulse to praise. At heart, these are love poems, though their loves are varied and complicated by terrible threats: that we will cry out and not be answered, fall asleep and never wake. Against such jeopardy Reveille fixes our attention on a lightening horizon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
File size
0,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61075-559-7 (9781610755597)
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University of Arkansas Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Reveille on a Silent Whistle
- Jellyfish
- The Past as a Public Swimming Pool
- Python in a Grand Piano
- Cradles
- Heimlich for a Heavenly Windpipe
- Love Parade
- Cigarettes
- Reveille with Kazoo
- Interview Conducted through the Man-Eater's Throat
- A Stipulation
- Prodigalia
- White Noise
- The Picture of Little G. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- Denouement in a Wooden Dollhouse
- Reveille with Reimbursement
- Born Blind, Discipled by the Blue
- Variations on Her Bed in Shadows
- Whatever Burn This Be
- Matches
- The Past a Sanctuary Staffed by Poltergeists
- Lullaby with Bourbon
- Reveille with Lullabies
- Notes
