Between Lakes
Published on 22. October 2020
150 pages
978-1-945588-78-5 (ISBN)
Description
How does consciousness inhabit liminal spaces? In Jeffrey Harrison's Between Lakes, the death of the speaker's father places him in the ever-shifting zone between the living and the dead while also sending him back into his journey to manhood. Old arguments are reimagined: What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a participant in one's life as well as a witness and recorder of the lives of others? The exploration of these questions leads to new discoveries, including the way time reshapes the vision of one's life and alters relationships, remaking a shared history. Harrison refrains from explanation, instead offering detail after trustworthy detail-less to prove a case than to imagine a life true to the original. Whether observing nature with steadfast precision or sensing the presence of his absent father while doing chores, Harrison sings the songs of experience in late middle life.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Ektachrome Days
- 1.
- Varnishing Days
- Glazing a Window
- Naïve Roofscape
- Mushrooming
- Elizabeth Bishop and the Grateful Dead
- Sharing a Painting
- Lost Photograph
- The Light in the Marsh Grass
- Beach Glass
- Girl Carrying a Suitcase
- 2.
- Laocoön
- Breakfast Poem
- The Same Father
- Making Money
- C Student
- Higher Education
- Kitchen Incident
- MASH
- How it Worked
- Shooting a Slingshot with My Father
- 3.
- Dead Tree
- Vines
- The Cruelty of Metaphor
- Gratitude
- Last Advice
- Last Look
- Waiting with Cynthia
- Departure
- Politics of the Dead
- Father's Day
- My Father's Sweater
- 4.
- Between Lakes
- Scene from a Photograph in a Dream
- Yard Work
- Oxbow
- Thinning the Spruces
- Rocking Chair
- Double Visitation
- Among Flowering Milkweed
- Morning Row
- All Down the Lake
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
