Between the Twilight and the Sky

Jennie Neighbors

Description

Jennie Neighbors’s new book BETWEEN THE TWILIGHT AND THE SKY is a brilliant, engaging adventure for the reader. Great poems in three Cantos wherein we are brought into “the direction the poem must travel” and find “the anomalous you must meet to become.” Hers is a “music that winds.” —ROBIN BLASER

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 10 octobre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602356702
• Langue: English

Extrait

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson
2008
Quarry by Carolyn Guinzio
Between the Twilight and the Sky by Jennie Neighbors
The Prison Poems by Miguel Hernández,
translated by Michael Smith
remanence by Boyer Rickel
What Stillness Illuminated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
2007
Child in the Road by Cindy Savett
Verge by Morgan Lucas Schuldt
The Flying House by Dawn-Michelle Baude
2006
Physis by Nicolas Pesque, translated by Cole Swensen
Puppet Wardrobe by Daniel Tiffany
These Beautiful Limits by Thomas Lisk
The Wash by Adam Clay
2005
A Map of Faring by Peter Riley
Signs Following by Ger Killeen
Winter Journey [Viaggio d’inverno] by Attilio Bertolucci,
translated by Nicholas Benson


Between the Twilight and the Sky
Jennie Neighbors
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com


Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
© 2008 by Parlor Press
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neighbors, Jennie.
Between the twilight and the sky / Jennie Neighbors.
p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)
ISBN 978-1-60235-087-8 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-088-5 (adobe ebook)
I. Title.
PS3614.E4425B48 2008
811’.6--dc22
2008041922
Epigraph: “De moment en moment” by René Char in Le Bâton de rosier . Editions Gallimard, Paris. Used by permission of Marie-Claude Char.
Author photograph by Jim Neighbors. Used by permission.
Cover photograph “Signor Farini—Rope Ascension” © 1859, Filing #D417685, Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection. Used by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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for Jim and Esten


Contents
Canto I: By Virtue of Stubborn Life
Three Towns and an Abstract Universal
Of Its Own Accord
The Problem of Freedom
The Problem of Freedom
The Problem of Freedom
Song of Secret Hymns
As the Present Writing Speaks
Untitled
Of Its Own Accord
The Fool
The Bookcase: A Prelude
The Vinculum
Song of Secret Hymns
Thought
Videndo Legant
A Lesson From Bach
Bone, Top, Ball
Cor Tuum Archa
Opens the Horizon
To the Night of the World
The Shore
Pictures of the Sea
Gran Chemin
The Act
A Life
Canto II: Between Death and Beauty
The Capacity for Power
The Capacity for Power
The Capacity for Power
Precisely In its Failure, Language Succeeds
Capacity
Capacity
Trembling
Between Death and Beauty
Morning Song
Dawn
The Country of the Night
Hermes
Syntax; or, What the Poem Thinks of Death
Between Death and Beauty
What the Poem Thinks of Death
What the Poem Thinks of Death
What the Poem Can Carry
What the Poem Cannot Carry
After William Carlos Williams
Homage to Creeley and Ponge
While Dancing, the Dervish Sings
Homage to Creeley and Ponge
Death is Entirely
Death is Entirely
Fairy Tale
Canto III: In the Lock of Artist Time
As Found in A Short History of the Shadow
A Little Endarkment
A Little Endarkment
Casting a Shadow
Beauty as the Color of Truth, so to Speak
The Direction the Poem Must Travel
Night Garden
Night Garden