remanence

Boyer Rickel

Description

As Ron Silliman has written, “Attention is all.” The poems in remanence are supremely attentive to the world—or rather to the traces it leaves in our brains. They also make a study of misperception and error. This is a form of meditation. Much of the book is composed of five-line poems, each long line a semi-separate thought, a probe. Each a kind of echolocation. Gently, insistently, they bring us news of our position. —Rae Armantrout | Boyer Rickel’s titles read like names of constellations Leonardo’s man might have inscribed inside his magic circle, each poem mapping points from sources near and far, physical and metaphysical, whose light is just reaching us now on the night sky of the page, our own nothingness acutely felt under such immensities, the future an occasion to commemorate what is already irrevocably past. Then for an encore, his fractured verses are resampled, reconstituted into a whole new music, verticals answering horizontals in a cosmic choral round. —Timothy Liu | In remanence, the brilliant stanzaic lyrical structures of Rickel’s early work give way. Here, the unimaginable, the imagined, the real and the irreal form a new improvisational logic. Here, associative diction imagistically and cognitively collide historic and personal worlds. Certain of its craft, sure of its architecture, the book closes with a reawakening: all the short poems reconfigure as longer riffs in a new shape and signature. —Jane Miller

Sujets

• Poetry
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170046
• Langue: English

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remanence
Boyer Rickel
Parlor Press
West Lafayette, Indiana
www.parlorpress.com


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rickel, Boyer.
Remanence / Boyer Rickel.
p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)
ISBN 978-1-60235-075-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-076-2 (adobe ebook)
1. Free verse. I. Title.
PS3568.I35335R46 2008
811’.54--dc22
2008038407
Cover photo: Morgan Schuldt. Used by permission.
Cover design: Gary Kautto and Jamey Aiken.
Author photo: Barbara Cully. Used by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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for Barbara Cully


Contents
Initial conditions.
Pink stranger.
Velocity.
The death of anecdote.
Foreboding.
Longing.
Forgiveness.
Cold glow.
Portrait.
Reckoning.
Shame.
Glance.
Allure.
Face to the wall.
Surface.
Waiting.
In the interval.
Duty.
Ghosting.
Habitat.
Born from nothingness,
Temporary.
Vestige.
Hiddenness.
Peripheral.
After disaster.
Residue.
Terminus.
Childhood.
Middle distance.
Blood tracer.
Dispersion (dissolution).
Latent.
Tidal.
Inexact measures.
Glass houses.
Breathed-on mirror.
Working methods.
In reserve.
On he & she—
On death—
On setting—
On I & you—
On animals—
On consciousness—
On nostalgia—
On making—
On hope—
Acknowledgments
Note
About the Author
Free Verse Editions


The small nouns
Crying faith
—George Oppen


remanence



remanence n. Physics. The magnetic induction that remains in a material after removal of the magnetizing force.