Keep the Feast
Poems
Published on 12. October 2022
96 pages
978-0-8071-7806-5 (ISBN)
Description
Stephen Cushman's Keep the Feast sings in the tradition of the psalmists and devotional poets, offering an intimate, ecstatic doxology, both exultant and indicting, spiritual and secular. His poems make prodigious and intrepid forays into the realms of history, sexuality, religious ardor, the imperiled planet, and the reasons for making art. At the heart of this three-part book lies the title poem, which takes as a formal model Psalm 119, the longest psalm in the Bible. In luminous verse, Cushman's speaker rejoices in the commitments of faith, finding in them a way of living with the paradoxes of twenty-first-century life and of holding belief in an often-unfathomable world.
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Person
Stephen Cushman
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- I
- The Fruit Thereof
- The Rain in Maine
- Overnight in the Sherfy House, Gettysburg
- Love in the Age of Inattention
- Love Your Neighbor as Your Self Portrait
- Time Management
- List List
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Rough Draft
- We're Screwed
- No Historical Marker
- "Mary (Blind)," Stratford Hall
- The Progress of Railroading
- Dealey Plaza, November Again
- Against Erosion
- Her Name Was Courage
- Charles Wright, Outside the Mailroom
- Woman with the Arrow
- Want to Make Something of It?
- Inserted in the Calendar
- Bury a Body on Private Land
- Supposing Him to Be the Gardener
- No Counting Sheep without Feeding Them Too
- Syllable Nutshell
- II
- Keep the Feast
- III
- Green Zebra
- Accidental
- Juicy Gossip
- Perhaps One Sabbath
- He Chose Minnesota
- An Ether Purer
- Woe to Us Hypocrites
- Granny Was an Angelfish
- Cut and Paste
- If It Weren't for You
- Foreign Body
- Single Origin Theory
- Casserole for the Bereaved
- Peace and Quiet
- The Qing Conquest Stirred Loyalist Passions
- "I Am in Ireland Now"
- May Contain Myth
- Crash Course
- Crisis Hotline
- Rommel's Option
- Dark Social
- Mated for Life
- Last Time in Person
