Waiting
Published on 1. April 2005
76 pages
978-1-58729-595-9 (ISBN)
Description
In a startling and original poetic voice, Megan Johnson in The Waiting reveals a vigilant young person who has suffered an unmentionable loss and who dismantles and reconstitutes lyric modes in a relentless search for solace. A lyric adventure of grief and search, The Waiting reinvents language from raw materials, driven by intense emotional need.
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Megan Johnson
The Waiting
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04/2005
University of Iowa Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- How it comes to pass
- Tradition, only the present
- Still life with weave
- Seasons (trying to align)
- Circumference
- Rocket grass
- A little / more
- Enter an empty flowerpot
- Stage left an umbrella
- II
- Why not matter
- Why not bombard, all this heat
- Why not trivialize, surely we love the alphabet
- Why not forget we came here to get a good look
- Why not look it up when you don't know what it means
- Why not examine how time does not change much at all
- Love poem (tree minus limb and counting)
- I woke
- Finding way (an apple or the thunk)
- Through my chest, where were you
- I am inside this flag
- Rosary
- III
- The Waiting
- IV
- Getting ready for time
- Hand clap
- Wing for unaware
- Dialogue of sea
- Nocturne 1
- Nocturne 2
- Nocturne 3
- In the manner of dying
- Peephole
