History in Bones
Published on 1. January 2002
48 pages
978-1-61277-773-3 (ISBN)
Description
Invoking the sacred and the profane, Juliana Gray Vice speaks to the reader with a powerful voice. From spotting geese at a Krispy Kreme to an imagined meeting of Tituba and John Dee, the poetry of History in Bones catechizes the reader with the mundane and the extraordinary."e;Juliana Vice writes with precision and grace, along with a deep rich humor-as well she might, considering the chaos and violence of the world she writes about. She probes the failures of the fallen world, and the history into which it has fallen, with wisdom and rage, intelligence and sorrow. And she also treats her own wisdom, rage, intelligence, and sorrow with an ironic grain of salt. She is already a writer to contend with."e;-Andrew Hudgins "e;[A] remarkable first collection."e;-Wyatt Prunty
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ashland
United States
File size
2,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61277-773-3 (9781612777733)
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The Kent State University Press
History in Bones
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03/2002
Kent State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- Here there be monsters
- Bottle Imp
- Berman Museum of Military History, Anniston, Alabama
- Speaking for the Moon
- Anniston
- Notes Toward an Ars Poetica
- Convergence at the Krispy Kreme
- Pieces of Eight
- II
- Bird, Smoke, Crystal, Bone
- I. The last December sunlight falls on these crows
- II. This book I've pulled from a stranger's shelf
- III. The Romans favored augury
- IV. Such things are never easy
- V. Begin with artifacts
- VI. Perhaps the girls discovered her at prayer
- VII. The sun is down, the windows turned to mirrors
- VIII. Were we so different from those Salem girls
- IX. Imagine Tituba and John Dee
- X. I don't know why I picked this musty book
- XI. And this, mundane until the passing of years
- XII. This last poor divination into the past
- III
- Noccalula Falls
- Feasting
- A Vision in Georgia
- The Retired Welder Turns to Gardening
- In the Shadows
- Describing Deer to a Blind Woman in Sewanee, Tennessee
