Settlers

F. Daniel Rzicznek

Description

Transversing the territory between the pastoral and the elegiac, F. Daniel Rzicznek’s Settlers inhabits the hidden, wild places of the American Midwestern landscape. The idea of “settling”—that a landscape can be tamed, that a human consciousness can fall back into immobility—is one these poems grapple with and resist, all the while charting the cathartic effects of the natural world on a collective imagination dually wounded by the madness of the post-industrial era and the multiplication of tragedy via media saturation. Within the “settled” landscape, it becomes clear that nothing, in fact, can be settled. Love, compassion, forgiveness, and transcendence all turn out to be moving targets and Settlers offers glimpse after glimpse of an unstable world in whirling, mesmerizing motion. Where the exterior landscape of weather, light and water skirts the interior wilderness of dream, vision, and prayer, these poems go out walking with their feet in the marsh and their hats in the infinite clouds, hoping to find what exactly it means to be human in a world imperiled by humans, and the all the fascinating and frustrating complexities contained therein.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 10 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170152
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

F . D A N I E L R Z I C Z N E K Settlers

Free Verse Edîtîons Edîted by Jon Tompson

SETTLERS

F. Daniel Rzicznek

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Contents

Acknowedgments and Notes îx

IDogs Without Humans 5

Deatess Navîgator 7 încpîn 8 Horses 9 Takîng te Mud-Cure at Wîow Poînt 10 Moose Factory 11 Cygnet 12 Frontîertown 13 Buttonwood 14 Anîma 16 Mosquîto ake 17 Potterstown 18 Buttermîk 19 1890 20 November Arcana 21 West 22 Pîckere Creek 23

IIUntitled [for the dead] 27

Sweat and Steam 29 O Eart 31 O Hîndrance 32 O Trave 33 O Hardsîp 34 O Current 35 he Body Sat Waîtîng or an Aternoon 36 O Reîgîon 37 O Season 38

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Contents

O Opposîtes 39 O Hîstory 40 O Burîa 41 Houses, Drîtîng 42 O Energy 44 O Progress 45 O Memorîa 46 Grand Army o te Repubîc Hîgway 47 O te Unîverse 49

IIIA Map of Vine River 51

Cu-de-Sac 53 îtte Portage 54 audanum 55 Kîbuck 57 ïkon 58 Geomancy 59 Sîdecut 60 By Hîs Own Hand 61 Keeys ïsand, November 62 A Map o Vîne Rîver 63 Vîne Rîver Carter 66 Sîvaree 67 Punderson ake 68 Etîc 69 Buegrass ïsand 70 Verge Escapement 71 he îgt at Wîow Poînt 73

About te Autor 75

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