New Ghosts

Laura Quinney

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New Ghosts is Laura Quinney's second volume of poetry, and continues and intensifies the exploration of a desolate reality which can offer us nothing but the love it demands from us in order to confront it.Of her first book, Corridor, Harold Bloom (who reprinted one of its poems in the Library of America anthology of American Religious Poems) wrote: "Corridor, more even than the work of Paul Celan, seems to me poetry absolutely in the spirit of Franz Kafka. The nearest affinity I can find to [Quinney's] superbly spare meditations is in the amazing translations that Celan did of a number of poems by Emily Dickinson. Again, like the strangely sublime Celan, [Quinney's] work moves me by its indirect yet surpassingly poignant avoidance of all obvious pathos. So original is Corridor that some of these reveries carry the mark of a possible permanence."

Informations

• Publié par: Borderland Books
• Date de parution: 02 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780996505277
• Langue: English

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Copyright © 2 016 Laura Quinney All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts for review purposes. Published by Borderland Books, Madison, WI www.borderlandbooks.net The author gratefully acknowledges the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for financial support. Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data Names: Quinney, Laura. Title: New ghosts / Laura Quinney. Description: First edition. | Madison, WI : Borderland Books, [2016] Identifiers: LCCN 2016938010 | ISBN 978-0-9965052-5-3 Subjects: LCSH: American poetry — 21st century. Classification: LCC PS3617.U566 N49 2016 | DDC 811/.6 – dc23 Printed in the United States of America First edition
i Contents Sl ow The Corr ect Answ er S no wmelt, M idwinter Themeless The S oul I s a S elf-M o ving N umber Lazy D ays of S ummer Lighting D o wn R eluctance Contr ol O ption Command T r ee P ose Akimbo F east H unger and Thirst S ynthetic H arbors P r ogr ession H alo S hor t-Cir cuit Less Than All N e w G hosts I maginar y F riends Confraternity of the D r y T r ee M y N arrativ e P oem T o the R omans F ootsteps F aux D ebutant The Killing at the C r ossr oads Loop After Loop Coursing A S ingle Anapest S no w D ay
ii Café des A battoirs S ans E v er ything The E nd of an E ra B lind P assage M etamorphosis The S ixth A ct T ransition What of the H ands? F lir ting with S urr ender D escent G rande G alerie F our Things That Ar e the S ame S tain in the W ater S ecr et H istor y Continually T oo Late I ner tia Clichés de Clichy I S till H av e T wo S elv es and M or e The R eady and Easy W ay The U nliv ed Life U p F r om U nder

1 Sl o w What I like is to slo w do wn so much ther e is almost absolute silence almost absolute stillness as close at any rate as a person can get in this world not meant for that at all and rar ely to be found ex cept in some places wher e ther e is quiet water or a heap of r ocks upon r ocks in R embrandt ’ s painting of the philosopher he sits plainly concentrating but he is far away in one dim corner while an impr obably large spiral stair case rises and twists thr ough the dead center of the r oom whirling tornado-like though it cannot mo v e
2 what seems to be turning is still as a r ock and what is turning is invisible turning in itself coiling in its o wn way in defiance of ev er ything w e kno w about life.