Thinking Eye, The

Jennifer Atkinson

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Jennifer Atkinson’s The Thinking Eye, her fifth collection, looks at the syntax of our living, evolving world, paying close attention to the actual quartz and gnats, the goats and iced-over, onrushing rivers. The poems also look at the looking itself—how places and lives become “landscapes” and the ways the lenses of language, art, ecology, myth, and memory—enlarge and focus our seeing. If it’s true, as Gaston Bachelard says, that whether a poet looks through a telescope or a microscope, [she] sees the same thing, then what Atkinson sees is an earth filled with violence and beauty, human malice and ten thousand separate moments of joy. Clearly in love with the earth and the (English) language—all those inter-dependent lives and forms—Atkinson pays attention to both with a Bishoppy eye, a Hopkinsy ear, and an ecopoet’s conscience. Behind the book’s sharp images and lush music creaks Chernobyl’s rusty Ferris wheel.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602357891
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE THINKING EYE

J E N N I F E R A T K I N S O N

REE VERSE EDïTïONS

EDïTED BY JON THOMPSON

Aso by JennîFer Atkînson

Cantice of the Night Path

Drift Ice

The Drowned City

The Dogwood Tree

THE THINKING EYE

J ennifer A tkinson

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

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Contents

A é Céô Pôwé Pa Ecô-Réŝévé 5

ONE adŝcapé ô Oé Hudéd Wôdŝ 9 hé awŝ ô Succéŝŝô 10 hé Sévé Saŝ ô é é Dppé 11 adŝcapé w Gôa’ŝ Eé 14 Daw ôm Mémô 16 adŝcapé w Jéféŝ ad é Côéccu Rvé 19 adŝcapé w Péégé acô ad Ha Caé 21 hé hg Eé 22 adŝcapé w Pam ad ïŝéŝ 23 Sé-Pôa w Séquôa Sémpé Véŝ 25 adŝcapé w Taŝucé Môô 27

TWO Réadg B Rvég 31 A Caôa Wé Sgŝ ô é Pôc Ra 35 Amôŝ 36 Exaaô 38 S, Aga: h Yéaŝ Aé é Aŝŝau 39 hé ôŝŝ Récôd 40 adŝcapé w Bôôdôô 42 hé vé Séédŝ ô é Nôé Sp Appé 44 Excô 46

THREE ï é Hadŝ ô é Budé 49 ôca Hŝô 50 ïvôuô 51

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O Ea aŝ ï ïŝ 52 adŝcapé w Mud Tué 54 d adŝcapé a 3 Avé. ad 1984 56 hé Udéŝô 58 Oxôw Rvé 59 gég é Côdŝ ôBackberry Bossom 60 Aŝacô 61 Happ Hôu 63 O Pupôŝé ô Séé 64

Acknowledgments  65 About the Author  67 Free Verse Editions  68