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At Some Point: Wisconsin Poetry Series

Autor David O’Connell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2025
Time is slippery. At Some Point openly acknowledges this while exploring the intersections between past and present, childhood and adulthood, midlife and mortality. Joyously and solemnly tugging on the threads that connect us—to life, to the planet, to each other—David O’Connell finds meaning in the small things. An earworm, a sudden memory, the arrival of a fox in the neighborhood, even camaraderie among other patients awaiting colonoscopies—all are grist for O’Connell’s ability to view the world simultaneously anew and as it once appeared. From the quotidian to the profound, this is a collection that hovers around your consciousness, reshaping your own vision and insight.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299355449
ISBN-10: 0299355446
Pagini: 84
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series


Notă biografică

David O’Connell’s previous poetry collections include Our Best Defense and the chapbook A Better Way to Fall. His work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, Southern Poetry Review, and North American Review, among other journals. O’Connell lives in Rhode Island with his wife, the poet Julie Danho, and their daughter. His work can be found at davidoconnellpoet.com.

Extras

“Unable to carry

their overloaded backpacks, my daughter
and her friends wheel them to school
like battered airline luggage, struggling

to pull them along their shortcut
through the cemetery. As they cross,
she tells me, they’ll each, out loud, say

I'm sorry, though she’s not sure who
started this, and, pressed, rolls her eyes,
embarrassed to admit the reasons they do.”

—Excerpt from “Intervale Cemetery”

Cuprins

I.
Late at Night, I Watch The Blue Planet
We’re Thinking of the Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Fresh Air
I’m Happy Because My Daughter Is Sad
Intervale Cemetery
Period Piece
Frank O’Hara
The Physician
I’m Calling 911!
Hunt
You Must Act as Though You’ll Live
In Spring
Let’s Talk About the Weather

II.
Watching My Wife Parasail
The Yard Is Full of Light
I Was Startled It Was Death
We Rush to See Their Movies
After
The Forecast Calls for Snow
My Friend Comes Back
This Is How It Happens
In College, We Were Assigned “The Dead”
In Case You Were Wondering
Watching My Daughter’s Tap Recital
The Past Isn’t What It Was When It Was
The Rational Animal
You Were My First Fox
Cathedral Ledge

III.
Minor Planets of the Inner Solar System
Oh My Goodness, Here Goes Your Body
Procedure
Avalanche
As If There Were Lessons
How to Tell the One About Fatherhood
This Time
Emitter
I Read the Dead Are Returning
The World as It Is
Encore
All Summer, the Rain
Love Song
Starter Home
When I Hear It’s a Buyer’s Market
The Elegant Universe

Acknowledgments
Notes

Recenzii

“Plain-spoken, warm, and affectionate poems give way to deeper observation as O’Connell turns a wry eye on finitude and mortality. These poems never leave us behind, embracing a world in which even a ‘lummox’ (like us) can be ‘gobsmacked’ by ‘so many choices’ that ‘the whole universe seemed possible.’ This is a capacious and big-hearted book.”

“Marvelous. Delicate, durable, intimate in feeling, and sweeping in view, At Some Point rewards belief in an American poetry that wants to ravel language, that’s keen to the mesmeric, that recognizes awe can be located in the everyday. Poems like these are what happens when grace and intelligence decide to take a walk.”

“Consistently spare, precise, and thoughtful, these poems are, above all, intimate. Subjects are not merely observed but experienced and meditated upon until loneliness, joy, and grief are, as O’Connell writes, ‘observed as passing clouds, an innate meteorology.’”