The poems in E. Alex Pierce's new collection invite readers to meditate upon language embedded in landscape, and trace the formation of a young artist who begins in music, arrives at theatre, and ends in poetry. From striking individual poems such as The fetch of the wind and The sky full of empty rooms to the stunning stretched sonnet sequence The Stanzas. Rooms.--Which searches a passionate relationship with a photographer for the beginnings of a poet's voice--the collection moves from the fragmented textures of childhood memory in an East Coast village to the complex juxtaposition of art museums, performance, opera, and string quartets. These fiercely poised poems are layered and rich, with a sensuous attention to line and breath; a major new volume from an accomplished poet.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1772124532 9781772124613
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.P536 PS8631.I469
- LCCN Item number
- T64 2020eb T64 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (84 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240794 (OCoLC)1143501243 (CaOOCEL)458737
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- To float, to drown,to close up, to open – a throat 10
- To float, to drown, to close up, to open – a throat 12
- Full Moon 28
- The boy. The boy is her beloved. 31
- Medway River, Carousel 32
- Nothing more lonely 34
- The Creek 35
- Mīthan, to conceal 38
- A Dug Well 40
- Tempest 41
- The sky full of empty rooms 42
- Bach Prelude: Reprise 44
- Mīthan 45
- Not wanting it to end 46
- The fetch of the wind 48
- It is in me forever 49
- Vindauga 50
- The Stanzas. Rooms. 52
- You want to say the word chemise 53
- It could have been that morning 56
- The opening, the newness, as if it were now 57
- In an afternoon, at your house 58
- Not of you. Of the capturing 59
- Now, on YouTube, the camera 60
- Heat from the photo lamps 61
- Enraptured. Christmas morning at your house 62
- The two Polish chairs 63
- can still see you, us. Side by side at Logan Airport 64
- Every Sunday morning we would set off 65
- Something about the dark 66
- What were they doing 67
- Honey and locusts. A man in pain 68
- In this last hour 69
- The vulnerability that doesn’t show 70
- Should I tell you now 71
- Or have we lived it. 72
- It’s not the heart. It’s the cry 73
- Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo 74
- We’ve come so far 75
- The boards are bare 76
- Coda, Aubade. 78
- The way white lilacs 80
- Notes 82
- Acknowledgements 92
- About the author 94
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 97
