The Fall
Autor D. Nurkseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2004
a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness. As the diversions of childhood prefigure the heartbreak of adulthood, Nurkse captures the exquisite sadness of each small “fall” that carries us further from our early innocence. In the book’s final section, the poet turns to face mortality with a series of stirring poems about illness in midlife. Throughout, Nurkse celebrates the sheer strangeness of our perceptions in a language that is both astute and surpassingly lyrical.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780375709760
ISBN-10: 0375709762
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 151 x 214 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0375709762
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 151 x 214 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Knopf Publishing Group
Notă biografică
D. Nurkse is the author of seven books of poetry. He has received the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry. He has also written widely on human rights.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
Extras
Red-And-Silver Schwinn
I would never learn.
She would never love me.
When I wriggled on that cruel seat
a blind force--perhaps hope--
smashed me into the sprinkler system.
Even when I wheeled it,
the bike jack-knifed.
It seemed the fall
was planned within me.
Polite with rage
I refused trainer wheels.
I carried the frame tenderly
over newly sodded lawns.
Once it was my burden
there was nowhere we could not go.
Sunlight
I trained a magnifying glass
on the ant with the crumb
and he stepped away
from the pool of light.
I held the beam
wherever he was going.
At once he shriveled
to a tiny black line
whose ends rose slowly
to meet each other.
I aimed at my hand
and sensed that fire
infinitely distant, close,
then inside me:
when I dropped the lens
I felt no comfort
and called my father's name.
Northbound
A bell tolled six times
on an island in the fog
and my father turned toward it.
Angelus or a signal?
Where the reefs must be,
a buoy chimed at random.
How to row toward a voice
once it has fallen silent?
He listened tight-lipped:
bitterns, gagging laughter,
slap and hiss of Castine,
creaking oars, my crying.
A white hand cupped us
so we faced each other
entirely inside the mind.
Then he began stroking powerfully,
a vein swelled on his forehead,
his blue knuckles rose like pistons,
even I could sense us circle
under the spell of his right arm,
and he lost himself counting
in his exile's language--
twenty, a thousand, as if our home
lay beyond those enormous numbers.
From the Hardcover edition.
I would never learn.
She would never love me.
When I wriggled on that cruel seat
a blind force--perhaps hope--
smashed me into the sprinkler system.
Even when I wheeled it,
the bike jack-knifed.
It seemed the fall
was planned within me.
Polite with rage
I refused trainer wheels.
I carried the frame tenderly
over newly sodded lawns.
Once it was my burden
there was nowhere we could not go.
Sunlight
I trained a magnifying glass
on the ant with the crumb
and he stepped away
from the pool of light.
I held the beam
wherever he was going.
At once he shriveled
to a tiny black line
whose ends rose slowly
to meet each other.
I aimed at my hand
and sensed that fire
infinitely distant, close,
then inside me:
when I dropped the lens
I felt no comfort
and called my father's name.
Northbound
A bell tolled six times
on an island in the fog
and my father turned toward it.
Angelus or a signal?
Where the reefs must be,
a buoy chimed at random.
How to row toward a voice
once it has fallen silent?
He listened tight-lipped:
bitterns, gagging laughter,
slap and hiss of Castine,
creaking oars, my crying.
A white hand cupped us
so we faced each other
entirely inside the mind.
Then he began stroking powerfully,
a vein swelled on his forehead,
his blue knuckles rose like pistons,
even I could sense us circle
under the spell of his right arm,
and he lost himself counting
in his exile's language--
twenty, a thousand, as if our home
lay beyond those enormous numbers.
From the Hardcover edition.
Recenzii
“Nurkse, former poet laureate of Brooklyn, excels at conveying . . . [a] kind of unaccompanied loneliness . . . [He] soberly relates the cruelties of the world.”
–Time Out New York
“D. Nurkse’s The Fall features three highly personal sequences of poems concerning death, love, and illness. Their drama and the universality of their themes draw us in . . . The Fall–mystical, mesmerizing, elegant–is a cat’s eye of a collection.”
–Bill Christophersen, Poetry
“D. Nurkse, despite his modesty, seems to be weaving poetry’s various movements towards a cohesive zenith, which takes him beyond characterization. He may be a contemporary poet, but his words will live beyond him.”
–Anne Hamilton, Memphis Commercial Appeal
“A collection of exquisitely-shaped poems highlighted by the poet’s gift for delicate yet piercing epiphanies.”
–Dennis Loy Johnson, Athens Banner-Herald
“Nurkse’s style is simple, almost conversational, yet underneath the words, the reader senses great emotion.”
–Library Journal
–Time Out New York
“D. Nurkse’s The Fall features three highly personal sequences of poems concerning death, love, and illness. Their drama and the universality of their themes draw us in . . . The Fall–mystical, mesmerizing, elegant–is a cat’s eye of a collection.”
–Bill Christophersen, Poetry
“D. Nurkse, despite his modesty, seems to be weaving poetry’s various movements towards a cohesive zenith, which takes him beyond characterization. He may be a contemporary poet, but his words will live beyond him.”
–Anne Hamilton, Memphis Commercial Appeal
“A collection of exquisitely-shaped poems highlighted by the poet’s gift for delicate yet piercing epiphanies.”
–Dennis Loy Johnson, Athens Banner-Herald
“Nurkse’s style is simple, almost conversational, yet underneath the words, the reader senses great emotion.”
–Library Journal