Small Sillion

Joshua Mckinney

Description

Joshua McKinney's fourth collection, Small Sillion, enacts a lyric struggle to perceive the numinous in a world marked by violence. The term sillion, as used by Hopkins in his famous poem, "The Windhover," refers to a furrow turned over by a plough. For McKinney it is both prelude to fertility, and wound, a scarring of the land. Maintaining a tension between the visionary and the mundane, between joy and despair, these poems posit a border between language and the living world; they constitute a personal eco-poetics of skepticism, one that respects language's utility and radiance, while acknowledging that the world's complexity lies beyond the grasp of language

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 24 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170473
• Langue: English

Extrait

SMALL SILLION

J O S H U A M C K I N N E Y

Free Verse Editions Edîted by Jon Tompson

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SMALL SILLION

Joshua McKinney

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Contents

First 5 Hum 7

Point of Reference 9 hou 11 Down în te Rîver 12 Prayer or My Daugter 13 he Understandîng 14 Near Song 16 Gede 19 Lepus 20 To te Cîe Musîcîan 21 Poînt o Reerence 22 he rîver was 24 A Reîc 25 A Vaentîne 26 Dîp 27 Sealm 28

A Mundane 31 Cak 33 Anoter Day în te Perîsîng Repubîc 34 Post Hoc 36 t 7 Dîspacement 37 Anîmîsm 38 he Current 39 Vestîge 41 ïncreduîty 42 Harrow 44 Beyond Reason 45

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Coumbîne(s) 46 Rebereaved 47 Beore te Brîngîng Fort 48 Evasîve Beavîor 49

In Paradise 51

A Renderîng 53

ïn Paradîse 54

[From te vast cîty / escaped înto] 56 A Morpoogy 58 Opîdîan 59 “Come Down” 60 Forms o Reusa 62 A Summonîng 63 Fammarîon 64 Gory 66 ïnspectîng a Patc o Grass în te Backyard, ï Deîgt în My Senses, Get Dîstracted by hougt, hen Deîgt în My Senses Agaîn 70 Perîsîng Ode 72 Spet 73 Late Testîmony 74 Heîr 75 Aspect 76 Sma Sîîon 77

Last 79 Unseved 81 Notes 83 Acknowedgments 85 About te Autor 87 Free Verse Edîtîons 89

Small Sillion

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