| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 65 pages)) |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Hangman -- Big tree -- Responsible person -- Paper roses -- Love poem -- Daphne to her father, god of rivers -- Etymology -- Daydream while frying bacon -- Jane -- Heat and light -- New Year's eve -- Your life in dances -- Fly -- A puzzle -- The wind blows my dictionary open to "man" -- Cri du coeur -- The bridge -- The man from Eden -- Annunciation with possum and tomatoes -- Carried away -- Aubade for Dave, the electrician -- Homeland security -- Saudade -- Last word -- Sharing a bath -- Hoop skirts recalled -- Rummage sale -- Haute couture -- Wishbone -- A true story -- A little dream of you |
| Summary |
In this poetry collection, time is of the essence. Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future - of what happened, and what-has-not-yet-happened, but will? Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. The author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep. But if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward grace - even, as the title suggests, towards consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each "held light and golden in Time's mouth," and to savor something of the eternal - distilled, sparkling, already lost - inside every now |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822979159 |
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0822979152 |
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