In Confidence
Autor Jim Tilleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2011
In Confidence is Jim Tilley’s first book of poems, ranging from lyric to narrative in form. About half of the 60 poems are open-form sonnets, most of which fit a broad theme of personal and societal “dislocation.” The collection covers a variety of subjects, from father-son and husband-wife relationships to issues of politics, the economy, and the environment. Stephen Dobyns cautions readers to look beyond the apparent calmness and elegance of the poems to the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. Many of the stories have unhappy endings. Several of the poems are presented in pairs with the same underlying setting or situation but markedly different development, exhibiting a kind of “quantum” picture with both states existing at the same time, not surprising since the poet was formerly a physicist. Billy Collins claims that Jim Tilley wins readers’ confidence by keeping a steady hand on the poem while maintaining a steady gaze at the world. This is a book of poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781597091091
ISBN-10: 159709109X
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 157 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Red Hen Press
ISBN-10: 159709109X
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 157 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Red Hen Press
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Recenzii
Jim Tilley does confide in his readers here as he explores a refreshing variety of subjects—everything from the complexity of father-son and husband-wife relations to the more solvable problems of dark matter and the origins of the cosmos. But what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world. —Billy Collins
At first glance Jim Tilley’s In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have unhappy endings. Instead the poems are about trying to maintain “this fragile equilibrium” like a tightrope walker tip-toeing above a lion’s den. One sees the quiet elegance is all that keeps one from shouting, “Watch out!” These are finely crafted poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives. —Stephen Dobyns
In Jim Tilley’s In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poet’s multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims for “the clearest vision one can imagine,” whether looking through the intricacies of scientific reasoning, the “perennial memories” that accompany aging, or the unexpected, undeniable logic of “the metaphor out there in the snow.” —Claudia Emerson
It is rare to encounter a first book of poems as clear-eyed and accomplished as Jim Tilley’s In Confidence. The press of everyday experience informs these deceptively calm poems, rippling with disturbing undercurrents. Whether imagining the incursion of windmills in Nantucket Sound (Vase of Tall White Stalks), or seeing “something fractal in forsythia” (In Spring, Mathematics Are Yellow), Tilley’s imagination is fluent and unforced, his eye fresh to the natural world that he searchingly inhabits. At his best, Tilley writes about the ordinary moments in a life in an extraordinary way. —Elizabeth Spires
Jim Tilley is a bracing and quietly confident writer, able to consistently surprise us, whether in missives from domestic life, topical poems, or poems which quirkily address what he calls “the big questions.” These are wry, bittersweet, and unobtrusively instructive poems in the tradition of Wilbur, Schuyler, and Dunn, and they are very much worth reading. —David Wojahn
Notă biografică
In Confidence (Red Hen Press, 2011) is Jim Tilley’s first book of poetry. He earned a doctorate in Physics from Harvard University and retired ten years ago after a 25-year career in insurance and investment banking. His poems have been published in several top literary journals and magazines. He has won the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry and the New England Poetry Club’s Firman Houghton Award. Four of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Extras
In Confidence
Why does leaning on the rail of a deck
and looking out over layers of hills
as buds burst through their coverings
evoke the big questions? Like why
are we making such a mess of it all?
Ask Sunday’s dissonant choir of birds
in the newspaper’s Week in Review,
always a replay of the same
failures. Lots of cartoons there
to remind us that making fun of ourselves
is a start but not an end. Take today—
though it could be any day—
a young girl with a bow in her hair
asking her bald-headed ex-VP granddad
to teach her new dog a trick,
so he grasps the pup by its scruff,
and pours a glass of water down its throat
while screaming, “Speak! Speak!”
I know we should, but it’s so hard
to feel tortured out here
watching the oak unfold its leaves.
Besides, waterboarding sounds like
an amusement park ride,
what you might do with your kids
at Typhoon Lagoon. I know I would
give up secrets. That’s why
you should never trust me with one,
though I must admit
that your brief affair with a colleague
will always be safe with me.
Why does leaning on the rail of a deck
and looking out over layers of hills
as buds burst through their coverings
evoke the big questions? Like why
are we making such a mess of it all?
Ask Sunday’s dissonant choir of birds
in the newspaper’s Week in Review,
always a replay of the same
failures. Lots of cartoons there
to remind us that making fun of ourselves
is a start but not an end. Take today—
though it could be any day—
a young girl with a bow in her hair
asking her bald-headed ex-VP granddad
to teach her new dog a trick,
so he grasps the pup by its scruff,
and pours a glass of water down its throat
while screaming, “Speak! Speak!”
I know we should, but it’s so hard
to feel tortured out here
watching the oak unfold its leaves.
Besides, waterboarding sounds like
an amusement park ride,
what you might do with your kids
at Typhoon Lagoon. I know I would
give up secrets. That’s why
you should never trust me with one,
though I must admit
that your brief affair with a colleague
will always be safe with me.
Cuprins
1.
Murmur............................................................................................................... 1
Vocabulary Test.................................................................................................. 3
Things Not Asked............................................................................................... 4
The Spectacles.................................................................................................... 5
No Two Countries............................................................................................... 6
Half-Finished Bridge............................................................................................ 8
Until First Snow................................................................................................... 9
Binoculars......................................................................................................... 10
From the Forest Comes the Call........................................................................ 12
Chemotherapy................................................................................................... 13
State of the Union.............................................................................................. 14
Empty Casings................................................................................................... 15
Private Tour...................................................................................................... 17
2.
In Spring, Mathematics Are Yellow.................................................................... 20
Mathematician’s Play......................................................................................... 21
Logic................................................................................................................. 22
The Big Questions............................................................................................. 23
Chamomile........................................................................................................ 24
Grand Design.................................................................................................... 25
Plywood Palace................................................................................................. 26
Richter 7.8........................................................................................................ 28
Serendipity in the Cosmos.................................................................................. 29
Fish Story.......................................................................................................... 31
The Breakers..................................................................................................... 32
Murmur............................................................................................................... 1
Vocabulary Test.................................................................................................. 3
Things Not Asked............................................................................................... 4
The Spectacles.................................................................................................... 5
No Two Countries............................................................................................... 6
Half-Finished Bridge............................................................................................ 8
Until First Snow................................................................................................... 9
Binoculars......................................................................................................... 10
From the Forest Comes the Call........................................................................ 12
Chemotherapy................................................................................................... 13
State of the Union.............................................................................................. 14
Empty Casings................................................................................................... 15
Private Tour...................................................................................................... 17
2.
In Spring, Mathematics Are Yellow.................................................................... 20
Mathematician’s Play......................................................................................... 21
Logic................................................................................................................. 22
The Big Questions............................................................................................. 23
Chamomile........................................................................................................ 24
Grand Design.................................................................................................... 25
Plywood Palace................................................................................................. 26
Richter 7.8........................................................................................................ 28
Serendipity in the Cosmos.................................................................................. 29
Fish Story.......................................................................................................... 31
The Breakers..................................................................................................... 32
3.
Message............................................................................................................ 34
India Ink............................................................................................................ 36
In Confidence.................................................................................................... 37
After Wine........................................................................................................ 38
Folding.............................................................................................................. 39
Dislocation........................................................................................................ 40
Boys................................................................................................................. 41
One Would Hope.............................................................................................. 42
The Ivy and the Brick........................................................................................ 43
The Clay and the Fire........................................................................................ 44
Loss of Purchase............................................................................................... 45
Every Branch..................................................................................................... 46
Running Free..................................................................................................... 47
Vase of Tall White Stalks................................................................................... 49
Something to Celebrate...................................................................................... 50
4.
On the Art of Patience....................................................................................... 52
A Belated Calculus............................................................................................ 55
Slaying Philistines............................................................................................... 56
Fish at the Dance............................................................................................... 57
Rehearsal.......................................................................................................... 58
Aluminum Rush.................................................................................................. 60
The Photographs............................................................................................... 61
5.
The Way We Are.............................................................................................. 64
Smoked Tuna and Kalamata Olive Pâté............................................................. 66
Western Culture................................................................................................ 68
Horrifying of Highness........................................................................................ 69
Dirty Laundry.................................................................................................... 71Message............................................................................................................ 34
India Ink............................................................................................................ 36
In Confidence.................................................................................................... 37
After Wine........................................................................................................ 38
Folding.............................................................................................................. 39
Dislocation........................................................................................................ 40
Boys................................................................................................................. 41
One Would Hope.............................................................................................. 42
The Ivy and the Brick........................................................................................ 43
The Clay and the Fire........................................................................................ 44
Loss of Purchase............................................................................................... 45
Every Branch..................................................................................................... 46
Running Free..................................................................................................... 47
Vase of Tall White Stalks................................................................................... 49
Something to Celebrate...................................................................................... 50
4.
On the Art of Patience....................................................................................... 52
A Belated Calculus............................................................................................ 55
Slaying Philistines............................................................................................... 56
Fish at the Dance............................................................................................... 57
Rehearsal.......................................................................................................... 58
Aluminum Rush.................................................................................................. 60
The Photographs............................................................................................... 61
5.
The Way We Are.............................................................................................. 64
Smoked Tuna and Kalamata Olive Pâté............................................................. 66
Western Culture................................................................................................ 68
Horrifying of Highness........................................................................................ 69
Gradients........................................................................................................... 72
Variations on a Theme by Yeats......................................................................... 73
Into Her World.................................................................................................. 75
Frozen Over...................................................................................................... 76
Something Missing............................................................................................. 77
Hey John........................................................................................................... 78
I Wished........................................................................................................... 79
Bipolar Fields.................................................................................................... 81
Not Yet............................................................................................................. 82
Descriere
In Confidence is Jim Tilley’s first book of poems, ranging from lyric to narrative in form. About half of the 60 poems are open-form sonnets, most of which fit a broad theme of personal and societal “dislocation.” The collection covers a variety of subjects, from relationships to issues of politics, the economy, and the environment. Several of the poems are presented in pairs with the same underlying setting or situation but with markedly different development, exhibiting a kind of ‘quantum’ picture with both states existing at the same time, not surprising since the poet was formerly a physicist. The subtly crafted verses of In Confidence resonate with universal human qualities.