The Smoke of Horses
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-942683-47-6 (ISBN)
A poem from the new collection, "Attraction," was published in an October 2016 issue of The New Yorker. Rafferty's poems have appeared widely in such places as The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.
This collection is new and fascinating territory for Rafferty—unlike any of his previous books—as he once had an aversion to prose poetry. According to Rafferty, "I used to think of prose poems as mules—sterile hybrids. Now, I see the prose poem as a euglena—that cutthroat survivor with a foot in two kingdoms. These are prose poems. They're the result of my own misgivings about what a line can and should do—and how easily I've failed."
Since he was a teenager, Rafferty has drawn significant influence from the poet Arthur Rimbaud. His work is similar to that of Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Christopher Kennedy, and Russell Edson.
Rafferty is a different kind of poet, who balances multiple jobs, a family, and his craft by writing on lunch breaks or in the "quiet time between the kids falling asleep and the wine taking its toll." Even with this routine, he is a well-respected and widely-published poet.
Charles Rafferty is the author of five previous collections of poetry, one collection of short stories, and two poetry chapbooks. His most recent poetry collection is The Unreachable Dog (Steel Toe Books, 2016). He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. His short stories have been collected in Saturday Night at Magellan's, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and is on the faculty of the Westport Writers' Workshop.
Contents
After the Flood5
Diminution6
Grackles7
Golf Course Moon8
An Adulterous Spring9
A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another10
The Problem With Where We Live11
Drift12
Mal Evans Counting13
Futility14
The Man Who Bled Wine15
Returning From Vincentown16
Common Nocturne17
The Bridges18
First Owl19
Reflection20
The Problem With Wanting Something21
Unnoticed22
Flags23
Genie24
Metropolitan25
The Problem With African Violets26
Winter Festival27
Leisure28
Caught29
Two Pianos30
Two People Kissing in the Park as Seen From a Speeding Train31
Windows32
For the Last Polaroid33
Carp34
Aqueduct35
Quarry36
The Reductionist37
Resumption38
Royalty39
Barbarian40
Garden State Racetrack41
The Problem With Mercy42
Blackbirds43
Swans44
Hotel Bible45
Catena46
The Problem With Spotfin Shiners47
River48
Swamp49
Magellan50
Antique51
An Explanation of How One Thing Leads to Another52
Proofs53
The Untuned Piano54
Pelican55
Ellipses56
Forecast57
Summer 198558
Snowfall After Hearing Hard News59
On First Looking Into Keats's Chapman's Homer60
Obscurity61
A Farewell to Poetry62
The Saddest Bid for Immortality Ever Devised63
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | American Poets Continuum |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942683-47-2 / 1942683472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942683-47-6 / 9781942683476 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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