Forever Notes, The
Published on 31. October 2012
75 pages
978-1-60235-371-8 (ISBN)
Description
Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity. In Ethel Rackin's THE FOREVER NOTES each of these terms finds resonance: the fleeting objects of the world are moving, and persons moved; her lyric syntax builds pictures that dissolve into song and then turn back to image again; the eternal endures in its endless transformations. "Leaves are for changing" she observes-an insight just as true of the leaves of her book. -SUSAN STEWART
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ETHEL RACKIN was born in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Evergreen Review, Poetry East, Volt, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Bard College and her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. She has taught at Penn State Brandywine, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, where she is currently an assistant professor.
Content
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes
- Meet me in the cabin
- Relax into the first note of nothing
- You lie in a told tree sure
- Let this be an eraser
- So far I have this pen
- How wonderful to go riding
- The frame of forever is wanting
- Where is the tea
- Story where I kept you
- It's raining in the forest
- The rodeo is up
- Where should I put my little feet
- Setting out against trees
- When Sepulveda hastens
- You and the laborious night of trees
- It was a lovely house, really-
- The path wreathed in silence
- Night is the time for travelers
- Sleep Song
- Pictures
- Amanda
- On Sundays
- Movie Poems
- Facing Windows
- Walking in Asheville
- Buttonwood Street
- Radio Free Europe
- Avenue C
- Preserving Jennie
- Museum
- Fish Journal I
- Fish Journal II
- A Boat That's a Raft
- Shapes Form Picnics
- Songs
- What Befalls You
- My Sister's Drawings of Trees
- A Flower Type
- Leaflets
- Ode to the River
- AVisit
- Before Everything
- Self-Portrait
- Ode to Stars
- Ode to a Lamp
- Ode to the Elgin Marbles
- No Octave, Mi-Carême
- Song
- Ode to the Bereft
- Ode to a Wand
- Ode to Birds and Wishes
- Press of Days
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Free Verse Editions
- Back cover
