Toward the Wild Abundance: Wheelbarrow Books
Autor Kristin Braceen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2019
Looking back, within, and ahead—while ultimately focusing on the here and now—Kristin Brace traverses landscapes of memory, dreams, and the imagination, exploring the fragments and shifting perspectives that shape experience and identity and reinvigorate the creation of meaning. With tenderness and wonder, these poems build their own stepping stones for the journey, moving from connection to disconnection, frailty to strength, and fierce love to intense isolation, depicting a whole that is enlivened by the coexistence of seemingly opposing forces, emotions, and experiences. Despite the darkness and uncertainty they embody, the poems in this collection insist on their existence, forever traveling toward moments alive with color and light. The poet draws from the riches of art, nature, and the quiet moments of every day in reflections often startling in language and content and unified by their voice-driven musicality. Fraught with illness, longing, and loss, these poems guide readers through the intricate geographies of the heart, sometimes hurtling, sometimes dancing, sometimes feeling their way through the dark toward the wild abundance of each new day.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611863222
ISBN-10: 1611863228
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Wheelbarrow Books
Seria Wheelbarrow Books
ISBN-10: 1611863228
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Wheelbarrow Books
Seria Wheelbarrow Books
Notă biografică
Kristin Brace writes poetry, fiction, and children’s literature. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin. Brace earned an MFA in writing from Spalding University, and her work has appeared in journals such as Fiction Southeast, The Louisville Review, Water~Stone Review, Chariton Review, and The Other Journal. She previously served as executive director of the Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center, where kids become published authors. Brace plays the accordion, studies Italian, and loves Lake Michigan in every season. She makes her home in West Michigan with her husband, the entrepreneur and inventor Neal Brace. She can be found online at www.kristinbrace.com.
Cuprins
Contents
1. Someone, Some Afternoon
Looking at Rooms Upside Down
Dream to Start the New Administration
Just Visiting
The Year of the Cicada
Requiem
Empty Boats
If You Love It Enough
Bonnard
A Pomegranate, or a Rhyming Couplet
2. That Pale Blue Space
Headache
Monologue of an Unknown Model
Re-creationism
The Names of Things
Somewhere in Newfoundland
It's happening again so I'm writing
William Stafford and George Eliot: A Conversation
Sunday in the New House
When I Hear a Gentle Knocking
Migraine Hates Turbulent Change
Outside the Frame
3. Everything Familiar and Strange
Intuitively Meaningful Units of Lost Days
Bathmat
Wide Awake Not-Nursery-Rhymes
At the Café
To Do
Verb 333
Body of Work
Sometimes, pink clematis climbing
Portrait of Valentine Godé-Darel by Ferdinand Hodler (1914)
Squander
Lukewarm Coffee at a Blue Desk in Michigan
Triptych of Saints and Mistakes
Fragments
4. You Might Be Yourself
Origin
My Life As an Impressionist Painting
Lament
Incomplete Interview with a Writer
Sometimes a Sadness Comes
And Then the Props Withdraw
When the Tamarack's Needles Turn Golden
The Day Is a Too Big Jacket
Another Morning
Words Become Strange
Murder in Winter
Daily Reminders
Before After
To the Patron Saint of Ceiling Cracks
5. Even the Purple Shadows
In sleep, his hand
Communion
No Address Needed
Donuts Among the Dead
Ask Me How I Know This
You + You
The Meeting Place
Frida and Joan
Good morning, my love-
Any number of reasons
Remnant
Composition
6. Where the Grass Still Greens
Day before Solstice, Week after Rain
Poor Oatmeal
Girls at Window by Berthe Morisot (1892)
After, we'll put on our dancing shoes
Ancestor Vision
Hand-Me-Down
After Reading A Simple Heart
Words Like Luminous and Lover
Someone else's house
Author's Acknowledgments
Series Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“Kristin Brace’s Toward the Wild Abundance is a painterly book, not just in its evocations of Bonnard, Matisse, and Cassatt, but in the quality of light that threads the poems. It’s an intimate light that ‘blurs’ and ‘whirs,’ ‘streams’ like a ribbon from a chickadee’s beak. The light here goes absent at the mouth of a cave, comes to us in snow light, drips like butter. We might ask, as the speaker of one of these poems does, ‘Who tilted the room to let the light spill so?’ And does our world really shine back with such beauty? This book says yes, points us toward and toward.”
—Laura Donnelly, author of Watershed, winner of the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize
—Laura Donnelly, author of Watershed, winner of the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize
"Kristin Brace possesses a marvelous delicacy of attention, tuned to the stillness deer carry with them—sheen of light through an insect’s body—'ferns / patient as dinosaurs'—'mouse / with a pulse like wishing'! I love her imaginative possession of the moment, of joy, and of sorrow, by way of the dear infinitesimal."
—Nancy Eimers, author of Oz
—Nancy Eimers, author of Oz
"Notice that easily missed 'Toward' in the title of Kristin Brace’s elegantly down-to-earth collection. Through her unpretentiously precise language, she is taking us 'toward,' and along the way drawing our attentiveness to all that matters. These poems of the numinous reveal a world vacant of mere theory and speculation. Brace longs for lives where we love wastefully and stand in awe, whether it be before a work by Bonnard, a basil plant, or a clumsily played accordion. In 'A Pomegranate, or a Rhyming Couplet,' the speaker says, 'And this tablecloth / is a garden where I / could lose myself / and maybe find / us.' It is an abundant walk, this with the gently fierce Brace Toward the Wild Abundance."
—Jack Ridl, author of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
—Jack Ridl, author of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Descriere
Looking back, within, and ahead—while ultimately focusing on the here and now—Kristin Brace traverses landscapes of memory, dreams, and the imagination, exploring the fragments and shifting perspectives that shape experience and identity and reinvigorate the creation of meaning. The poet draws from the riches of art, nature, and the quiet moments of every day in reflections often startling in language and content and unified by their voice-driven musicality. Fraught with illness, longing, and loss, these poems guide readers through the intricate geographies of the heart, sometimes hurtling, sometimes dancing, sometimes feeling their way through the dark toward the wild abundance of each new day.