Forever Notes, The

Ethel Rackin

Description

Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity. In Ethel Rackin's THE FOREVER NOTES each of these terms finds resonance: the fleeting objects of the world are moving, and persons moved; her lyric syntax builds pictures that dissolve into song and then turn back to image again; the eternal endures in its endless transformations. "Leaves are for changing" she observes-an insight just as true of the leaves of her book. —SUSAN STEWART

Sujets

• Poetry
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 31 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602353725
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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The Forever Notes
Ethel Rackin

Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rackin, Ethel.
[Poems. Selections]
The forever notes / Ethel Rackin.
pages cm. -- (Free Verse Editions)
Poems.
ISBN 978-1-60235-370-1 (paperback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-371-8 (Adobe ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-372-5 (ePub)
I. Title.
PS3618.A343F67 2012
811’.6--dc23
2012039347
Cover design by David Blakesley.
Cover image: © Kiki Smith and Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. “ Etc., Etc. ” 1999. Photogravure on mold-made Hanemühle paper and collaged lithograph and photolithograph on handmade and machine-made Japanese paper. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licenced by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Notes
Meet me in the cabin
Relax into the first note of nothing
You lie in a told tree sure
Let this be an eraser
So far I have this pen
How wonderful to go riding
The frame of forever is wanting
Where is the tea
Story where I kept you
It’s raining in the forest
The rodeo is up
Where should I put my little feet
Setting out against trees
When Sepulveda hastens
You and the laborious night of trees
It was a lovely house, really—
The path wreathed in silence
Night is the time for travelers
Sleep Song
Pictures
Amanda
On Sundays
Movie Poems
Facing Windows
Walking in Asheville
Buttonwood Street
Radio Free Europe
Avenue C
Preserving Jennie
Museum
Fish Journal I
Fish Journal II
A Boat That’s a Raft
Shapes Form Picnics
Songs
What Befalls You
My Sister’s Drawings of Trees
A Flower Type
Leaflets
Ode to the River
A Visit
Before Everything
Self-Portrait
Ode to Stars
Ode to a Lamp
Ode to the Elgin Marbles
No Octave, Mi-Carême
Song
Ode to the Bereft
Ode to a Wand
Ode to Birds and Wishes
Press of Days
Free Verse Editions


Notes


Meet me in the cabin
Meet me in the sea
Meet me where our love’s a shirt
Drenched, dried out, and drenched once more



Relax into the first note of nothing
The sky’s becoming
The