No Other Rome
poems
Published on 22. March 2021
67 pages
978-1-62922-216-5 (ISBN)
Description
In No Other Rome, the title''s "o"s are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae, apertures through which we view the past or future. The poems in this collection engage contemporary art and Modern literature, alongside texts from Classical Greece and Rome, in an embodied, intertextual worry. The poems ask what lasts--"please last"--and what might be the last (or, with an "o," "lost,") "time," "auk," or "breath" as we move away from twentieth-century concerns into an unpredictable future. When there is no Planet B, no other Troy to burn, these elegies, love poems, and meditations seek a song that could "in singing, change the seen."
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- If Anything Is Everlasting It Can Only Be One Thing
- Provincial Time
- Aristotle Is a Skeleton
- "I Can See through Walls"
- How the Little Bear Reflected Light
- I Typed Your Poem with My Own Hands Today
- The Angel Is an Amalgam
- Small Machines with Sapphic Fragment
- A Series of Holes Connected by String
- II
- Treachery
- Spectres
- "I Will See the Future"
- The Monocle Is a Circle the Eye Is a Circle
- Let Us Try for Once Not to Be Right
- The Problem with Samy Rosenstock
- What's Water?
- Valentine's Day at the SF MOMA, Again
- III
- The Transitive Properties of Snow
- Feathers, Quiet, Light
- I Make the Living Water Wet
- Proteas
- Vita Astrale
- The Half-God Appears
- I Was Reading up on My Hellenic Math
- IV
- New Names
- Spoglie
- Rome, with Child
- O, to Live in the Necropolis
- Fable for a Genome
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
