Somewhere in Space
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2015
82 pages
978-0-8142-7551-1 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Talvikki Ansel's Somewhere in Space work to locate us in this world and its mix of the made and natural, the cultivated and untamable. Faced with such mysteries and intricacies as the water-conducting tissue of trees, the sensory abilities of vultures, the lives of past writers (Edith Sodergran, Bruno Schulz), and fragments of history and our tenuous connections to them, the poems acknowledge the difficulty of authority, yet continue with their forays. Invented characters coexist with observations of mergansers and moths, orioles and cats; "e;Particulars rock / just inside the breakwater / like conjured up skiffs."e;
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Content
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Leap Years
- Mycorrhizae
- How It Sounds
- Visitors
- Their First Houses Were Bark-Roofed Caves
- Outpost
- Quail
- Courtship
- Xylem
- Dangerous Captain
- The Ships
- Impossible Herds:
- In Captivity
- Unsettled Weather
- Forest
- Swallows
- Two Gourds
- Baking Soda Trading Cards: Bird Series
- Card 8: Baltimore Oriole
- Card 4: Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Card 19: Gull
- Card 7: Merganser
- Card 20: Mute Swan
- Card 3: Crested Flycatcher
- Seed Savers
- Coil / Foil / Ribbon / Loft
- Tell the Story of the Whale
- Loft
- Places to Swim
- If the Vulture Chooses You
- Jealousy, Enkidu
- History of Private Life
- Sinbad & Skylark
- Here's the Sea
- Valentine's
- After the Party
- Wintering, Witness
- Migrant: Philohela minor
- Don't Tell Me
- Entomology
- Calendar
- The Encyclopedia of Moths
- Glaze
- The Garden Whisperer
- Glacial Erratic
- Chrysanthemums
- Somewhere in Space
- [Calico gray, rag-tag she chose our crawl space]
- [They know their terrain, their paths]
- ["On foot"]
- [In a week they are gone, did the mother]
- [After I dumped the failed jelly by the rotten]
- [If you count the catalogue of cats]
- [A lens of cloud, a sighting around a sheet]
- [Coming back into the yard something's off]
- [She is back, the one-eyed cat, trapped]
- [Edith Södergran, also holding the leash]
- Town Runway
- Days of the Pharaoh
- Apples
- Notes
