Dream Sender
Poems
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2015
86 pages
978-0-8071-6015-2 (ISBN)
Description
"e,"e,Huddle is a source of light in an often gray world."e,-Booklist"e,[Huddle's poetry is] luminous and majestic."e,- Philip Deaver, The Southern ReviewAn account of spiritual survival through the practice of literary art, the poems in David Huddle's eighth collection, Dream Sender, move among a variety of poetic forms and voices. Here, a bear wonders why he could not have been a raccoon, a bird, or a meadow, and a five-year-old thrills to the forbidden taste of whiskey as he eavesdrops on his parents' after-dinner conversation. By turns outrageous and pragmatic, Huddle's poems acknowledge the powerful and disturbing currents of the contemporary world as they also explore the comfort and familiarity we find there.Huddle's poems illuminate the nature of relationships between family, friends, and even animals, celebrating their shortcomings, embarrassments, and eccentricities. At once frank and compassionate, Dream Sender finds both humor and poignancy in human imperfections.
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Content
- COVER
- CONTENTS
- 1. DOMESTIC STRANGE
- Concert
- Service
- Cardinal Rules
- Shot at Costco
- The Ten Thousand Errors
- Blinds
- Embrace
- I Reckon
- I Reckon Again
- Stores
- Okay
- Bon Voyage
- Self Therapy
- Solidarity
- Dead Friends
- Fountain of Old Age
- Gun Notes
- 2. DREAM SENDER
- What Is Unknown
- Scrap Wood
- Dream Sender
- No Where
- Genital Epistemology
- Sex Sentence
- Wren & Bear
- Bear Goes Metaphysical
- Bear and the Crows
- God Speaks of Dancers
- The Dancers Speak of God
- How It Works
- Sit With It
- The Greatness of Teddy Wilson
- Practice
- 3. THE BAT
- The Call
- Evidence Contributing to a Late Illumination
- Even Then I Knew
- Meditation
- Epiphany in the Parking Lot
- Dog Sutra
- Okay #2
- Against Auld Lang Syne
- My Father Breathing
- Witness
- A Little Drunk
- Then
- Real Lady
- The Uplift Obligation
- Comes a Moment
- Homothology
- When the Bat Goes to Live with Jesus
