All the Lavish in Common: Juniper Prize for Poetry
Autor Allan Petersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2006
These poems remind us that we are all in the thick of things, the rich and complicated givens. Moving fluently from subjects as diverse as the surface of Europa to a tiny spider in a tear of wallpaper, from Pythagoras at Tyre to the wings of a dragonfly, they are in love with the world and the deep seriousness of living. Often lavish themselves, they reflect that fact that the author is a visual artist as well as a poet of insightful and sustained imagination.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781558495265
ISBN-10: 1558495266
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 171 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Juniper Prize for Poetry
ISBN-10: 1558495266
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 171 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Juniper Prize for Poetry
Notă biografică
ALLAN PETERSON recently retired as chair of the Visual Arts Department and director of the Visual Arts Gallery at Pensacola Junior College in Florida. His first book, Anonymous Or, won the 2001 Defined Providence Press competition.
Cuprins
- Where Should I Begin
- Private Lives
- Blackout with Herbs
- The Surface of Europa
- Elementary
- From the Heart
- Swallowtails
- Transfusion
- Today the Swallows
- Viscosity
- How Far Behind Are We
- Trial
- Ample Evidence
- Landmarks
- An Anecdote
- Bone Structure
- Trespass
- Virtues
- Critical Mass
- Wind Chill
- Breathing without Exhales
- The Beginning
- Holding your Horses
- Reluctant
- Arriving Full-Speed
- The Need to Explain
- One Day in Texas History
- Under Oath
- Living in Minutes
- What Belongs
- As Far As
- What Refill Means
- Solemn Examples
- Lasting Impressions
- Cosmology
- Back to Us Last Night
- How Folklore Starts
- Side Effects
- Sad Facts
- Just in Tiem
- The Appeal of Antiques
- Habits
- Suspended Animation
- Spontaneous Combustion
- Notions from the East
- Swan Song
- Witness to Increasing Peril
- I’ll Take it From Here
- Before the Afterlife
- Forensics
- Heroic Proportional
- Going Gooseflesh
- Those Were the Days
- A Forecast
- Hydrology
- No Perhaps
- Fault Zone
- June in the Inner Ear
- The Nature of Forgiveness
- Shrinking to Pinpoints
- I Swear
- Bunji
- Taking My Time
Recenzii
“From out of left field, or rather north Florida, comes a smart and mature second collection. Peterson's sinuous lines and careful sentences imagine the perspective of dogs, ‘The Need to Explain,’ ‘The Appeal of Antiques’ and the melancholy fascinations of everyday life: ‘the calf in the pasture/ that became a flowered purse.’ Peterson tracks the vicissitudes, oddities, and noteworthy tangents of contemporary household with originality: he cares not just how things look or for how we fell, but for the ways in which our habits make us make mistakes about ourselves and about the people with whom we share our lives.”—Publishers Weekly
“These lavish poems make the most of language as they explore the rich and complicated givens of our lives, using a wide canvas for their splatter of diverse subjects.”—The Comstock Review
“In All the Lavish in Common, Allan Peterson journeys into language and culture and deep into the hidden places within us, and he speaks from there. As he says in one poem, ‘The real details are the unexpected / taking on new life.’ With a combination of wisdom and humor, Peterson speaks ‘tangibly / about the intangibles.’ He gives us reason to be thankful these poems exist.”—Andrea Hollander Budy, author of The Other Life and House Without a Dreamer
“Say your dog could suddenly understand you. Why do men look at women the way they do? it'd ask. Why have y'all messed up the environment? And no heaven for dogs—now why's that? In Allan Peterson's beautiful new book, there's a poem on this subject but also many others: guilt, foolishness, death, hope, even our inability, after all these years, to predict the weather. In the dog poem, the good creature listens patiently but really just wants her master to throw the ball so she can bring it back to him. Patience and compassion are the hallmarks of Allan Peterson's poems; to read them is to be a better human being.”—David Kirby, author of The House of Blue Light and The Ha-Ha
“Each of Allan Peterson's poems is like a journey through the here and now; we have the feeling of moving even though we're not, and we always arrive somewhere new. Alert to the life that lies in the wren's whistle, no poem tells us where it will end up until it ends. Every object we encounter is a warehouse of the perceptual, with the invisible laboring right behind, and everything arrives full-sized. How likely the impossible is in these poems, and how beautiful. They will sing your bones alive.”—Reginald Shepherd, author of Otherhood and editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries
“These lavish poems make the most of language as they explore the rich and complicated givens of our lives, using a wide canvas for their splatter of diverse subjects.”—The Comstock Review
“In All the Lavish in Common, Allan Peterson journeys into language and culture and deep into the hidden places within us, and he speaks from there. As he says in one poem, ‘The real details are the unexpected / taking on new life.’ With a combination of wisdom and humor, Peterson speaks ‘tangibly / about the intangibles.’ He gives us reason to be thankful these poems exist.”—Andrea Hollander Budy, author of The Other Life and House Without a Dreamer
“Say your dog could suddenly understand you. Why do men look at women the way they do? it'd ask. Why have y'all messed up the environment? And no heaven for dogs—now why's that? In Allan Peterson's beautiful new book, there's a poem on this subject but also many others: guilt, foolishness, death, hope, even our inability, after all these years, to predict the weather. In the dog poem, the good creature listens patiently but really just wants her master to throw the ball so she can bring it back to him. Patience and compassion are the hallmarks of Allan Peterson's poems; to read them is to be a better human being.”—David Kirby, author of The House of Blue Light and The Ha-Ha
“Each of Allan Peterson's poems is like a journey through the here and now; we have the feeling of moving even though we're not, and we always arrive somewhere new. Alert to the life that lies in the wren's whistle, no poem tells us where it will end up until it ends. Every object we encounter is a warehouse of the perceptual, with the invisible laboring right behind, and everything arrives full-sized. How likely the impossible is in these poems, and how beautiful. They will sing your bones alive.”—Reginald Shepherd, author of Otherhood and editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries