Taken Somehow By Surprise: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Autor David Clewellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2011
David Clewell’s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian’s role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299251147
ISBN-10: 0299251144
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN-10: 0299251144
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series
Recenzii
“David Clewell is an exuberant, inexhaustible poet. . . . His unstoppable narrative energy and his multi-layered curiosity are almost enough to drive this poet out to the far right side of the page.”—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
Notă biografică
David Clewell is author of seven previous collections of poetry, including The Low End of Higher Things and Now We’re Getting Somewhere, 1994 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He is Poet Laureate of Missouri as well as professor and director of creative writing in the English department of Webster University in St. Louis.
Extras
Just shy of fifty years since it arrived,
the classic pink flamingo’s gone extinct,
done in by the rising cost of plastic
and unrelenting flood of Chinese knockoffs.
—from “The Flamingos Have Left the Building”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
At Hamilton Elementary we watched every Mercury launch
between the Pledge of Allegiance and our ration of morning milk
on the battered TV that janitor Geiss always lugged into our room,
trailing a whiff of the Lucky Strikes that somehow kept him going
in the humble boiler-room office he liked to call his very own
Mission Control.
The entire class would count down together
until the launch-tower fell away, the rocket-booster fuel igniting
with the kind of brilliant firepower that in those days never failed
to lift our skittish hearts into our throats. We were suckers
for anything astronautical—the suits, the helmets, the very idea
of leaving the outmoded Earth behind us for a while. We’d come
to live for the chance of escaping the pull of preadolescent gravity.
—from “Home Movies of the Space Race”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
The Accomplice
I. Somewhere Else We Have to Be
This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In
No More Mail from Baltimore
So Much Gone and Going
The Flamingos Have Left the Building
In My Dream, Coleman Hawkins
Goodbye to the Blockhead
The Only Time There Is
All Night and Always
The All-Dressed-Up-and-Going-Nowhere Ghosts
II. Untold Days on Earth
Uncle Bud, Unshaken in the Wake of Sputnik: October 1957
Home Movies of the Space Race
Not Exactly Rocket Science
The Lunar Sympathizers
A Brief History of the Moon in Twentieth-Century Song, and Then Some
III. A Lifetime of Parts & Labor, Guaranteed
A Pocket Guide to Trouble
The Perfect Stranger
Maybe Just One Poem in This Fecund Spring Where Patricia Doesn't Suddenly Appear, Waylaying Whatever It Was I Must Have Had in Mind
Danse Clewellian, or: Is There a Doctor in the House?
Meanwhile, Back at the Typewriter, I'm Hoping for a Greater Acceptance
How the Visiting Poet Ended Up in the Abandoned Nike Missile Silo in Pacific, Missouri, after Surviving a Morning of Grade-School Classroom Appearances on Behalf of One of the Better Impulses in the History of Human Behavior
Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms
IV. Jack Ruby's America
i. Jack Ruby Orders the Chicken Salad: November 21, 1963
ii. The Chicago Cowboy
iii. Jack Ruby Talks Business with the New Girl: November 21, 1963
iv. The Difference a Day Makes
v. Jack Ruby Spends His Last New Year's Eve with His Sister, Telling the Truth as He Knows It: Parkland Hospital, December 31, 1966
The Accomplice
I. Somewhere Else We Have to Be
This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In
No More Mail from Baltimore
So Much Gone and Going
The Flamingos Have Left the Building
In My Dream, Coleman Hawkins
Goodbye to the Blockhead
The Only Time There Is
All Night and Always
The All-Dressed-Up-and-Going-Nowhere Ghosts
II. Untold Days on Earth
Uncle Bud, Unshaken in the Wake of Sputnik: October 1957
Home Movies of the Space Race
Not Exactly Rocket Science
The Lunar Sympathizers
A Brief History of the Moon in Twentieth-Century Song, and Then Some
III. A Lifetime of Parts & Labor, Guaranteed
A Pocket Guide to Trouble
The Perfect Stranger
Maybe Just One Poem in This Fecund Spring Where Patricia Doesn't Suddenly Appear, Waylaying Whatever It Was I Must Have Had in Mind
Danse Clewellian, or: Is There a Doctor in the House?
Meanwhile, Back at the Typewriter, I'm Hoping for a Greater Acceptance
How the Visiting Poet Ended Up in the Abandoned Nike Missile Silo in Pacific, Missouri, after Surviving a Morning of Grade-School Classroom Appearances on Behalf of One of the Better Impulses in the History of Human Behavior
Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms
IV. Jack Ruby's America
i. Jack Ruby Orders the Chicken Salad: November 21, 1963
ii. The Chicago Cowboy
iii. Jack Ruby Talks Business with the New Girl: November 21, 1963
iv. The Difference a Day Makes
v. Jack Ruby Spends His Last New Year's Eve with His Sister, Telling the Truth as He Knows It: Parkland Hospital, December 31, 1966
Descriere
David Clewell’s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian’s role in the burgeoning Space Race; the vastness of abandoned missile silos; the first lawn flamingos; the living fossil still using a typewriter.