
Something Shining
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These beautifully crafted poems explore relations between lovers, between friends, between fathers and children. Written by the light of a young daughter's presence, in the distinctive lyrical language that Ted Hughes described as "so free and effortless and unerring," these poems ponder the fading of the body and the struggle that consciousness wages to keep the self afloat. And into this intimate world also enter a surprising array of characters: ancient Chinese poets and modern Cuban musicians, Charlie Parker, Chekhov, and the dervish mystic Rumi. But it is the poet's awareness of his own frailty ("the days run out--no longer oneself," he writes in "Fugue"), that, together with the extraordinary beauty he discovers in environments familiar and exotic, unifies this collection. The work of a poet at the top of his form, Something Shining confirms Halpern's place in our national literature.
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- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Zeno's Lemur
- Chapter 2 - Her Body
- Chapter 3 - After the Vigil
- Chapter 4 - To a Daughter
- Chapter 5 - The New Road
- Chapter 6 - Moon Over Squibnocket
- Chapter 7 - Keepers
- Chapter 8 - Hot Tea
- Chapter 9 - Marriage Poem
- Chapter 10 - After Rumi
- Chapter 11 - Love Song
- Chapter 12 - My Eyes your Eyes
- Chapter 13 - Fugue
- Chapter 14 - Dusk
- Chapter 15 - Midnight Triadic Ghazal
- Chapter 16 - Just another Darkening
- Chapter 17 - Resurrection
- Chapter 18 - Thaw
- Chapter 19 - Real Estate
- Chapter 20 - Infestation
- Chapter 21 - All City
- Chapter 22 - Cinema Verite
- Chapter 23 - Dance
- Chapter 24 - Careless Perfection
- Chapter 25 - Nature Lover's Lament
- Chapter 26 - Hungry as Dogs
- Chapter 27 - A Place to Eat
- Chapter 28 - Desperados
- Chapter 29 - Abiding Memento
- Chapter 30 - First Fever
- Chapter 31 - Daughter & Chair
- Chapter 32 - Carnival Food
- Chapter 33 - Carnival Mood
- Chapter 34 - Tattoo
- Chapter 35 - A Bad Year
- Chapter 36 - Here at Fifty
- Chapter 37 - Direction
- Chapter 38 - Rusted Tin
- Chapter 39 - The Eternal Light of Talk
- Chapter 40 - In Season
- Chapter 41 - New Strangers
- Chapter 42 - Beauty & Restraint
- Chapter 43 - Late
- Chapter 44 - Measures She has Taken
- Chapter 45 - H?eg's Island
- Chapter 46 - Air, '56
- Chapter 47 - Buena Vista Social Club
- Chapter 48 - Dinner for Two
- Chapter 49 - Bravura Lament
- Chapter 50 - Foreseeable Futures
- Chapter 51 - Homage to N.
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
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