Tethering World
Published on 20. January 2014
36 pages
978-1-61277-981-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Jody Rambo's poems push and pull, travel and rest, occupy and set free. Her 'tether' both holds her fast to the facts and words that make up our world, but at the same time it liberates her to roam and travel, inclined as she says, 'to wander off into the green beyond recoverable limits.' What I admire most about this book is the way the wide arc of history and narrative and the smallest gesture of image and word come together?tethered?into something wondrous and new."?Jeffrey Thomson"Jody Rambo's first book of poetry, Tethering World, is lyrical, tactile, and transcendent?in a word, enthralling. The very texture embodies a personal way of seeing and saying, as does the extraordinary range of circumstances. There is a beguiling strangeness to the writing, and philosophical smarts to boot. 'I am weatherly,' says the speaker in Tethering World, and she truly is, singularly so. This book is poetry top to bottom."?Marvin Bell"Pitched between...
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kent, OH
United States
File size
3,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61277-981-2 (9781612779812)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- I am weatherly and so
- Sea Change
- Myopia
- Watching Westerns
- Landing
- Upon the Third Exhumation of the Body of Teresa of Ávila
- My Lovely Assistant
- Mercurialism
- Undertow
- The Mirror Maker's Daughter
- Writings to the Unborn
- The Smoothing Room, Boston Glass Company
- Cousteau Unpacks the First Aqualung
- 2.
- Of Daughters Who Walk in Gardens
- Here in the Open
- Leave-taking
- On Entering the Garden of Desire
- Thel's Lament
- Exit
- The Secret Air
- She Forgives Her Mother Her Death Wish
- Field
- Green Mind
- Notes
