Another City - David Keplinger

Another City

Poems

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
112 Seiten
2018
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-486-4 (ISBN)
14,95 inkl. MwSt
A rich portrait of the seemingly incommunicable expanses between people, places, and ideas—and the ability of a poem to transcend the void.
WINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZE

How does it feel to experience another city? To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd? To attempt to be heard above the din?

The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape—a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen—to the streets themselves, where “an alley was a comma in the agony’s grammar,” in David Keplinger’s hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare.

Yet Another City deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when “the wound, called loneliness, / opens,” and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince.

This is a rich portrait of the seemingly incommunicable expanses between people, places, and ideas—and the ability of a poem to transcend the void. 

David Keplinger is the author of five volumes of poetry. He has won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and the Colorado Book Award, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the DC, Danish, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at American University in Washington, DC.

Contents



City of Birth



City of Birth

Ardor

Preservation

The Brahms

Beatification

Embarrassment

Lovesickness

Citizen Thumb

Citizen Small

My Father's Hours

Citizen Mouth

Citizen Eye

City of Youth

Broadcast for the Last Snowfall

Lazarus

"Every Angel Is Terrifying"

Mynah Bird, Hobe Sound

Magnification

Three

Calling Horses

"An Apartment in the City of Death"



City of Texts



Wave

Arrival of the Aleph

Three Feasts: Simone Weil

The Crow's Progress

Night of the Death of Seeger

Lightest of Dogs, Rome

Her Sums

Q: In What City Does Your Mother Live

The Liquid R

Chance

Tennis with the Dead

The Sibilant

Carp

A Young Man's Copybook: 1861-1864

V-Sign

X, & Axe

"Marie Curie's Century-old Radioactive Notebook Still Requires Lead Box"

The Little Stairs of Z

Comet



City of Domes



My Carnation

An Ashtray

Attic Order

Hymn

A Blue Dish

In Steel

My Town

A Pair of Glasses

A Lost Cup

A Sunfish

A Box of Screws

In Gold

A Doll's Head

Glad to Be Unhappy

The Church inside the Church Where Weil First Knelt to Pray

In Marble

A Poetry Shop in Heraklion

A Stick Figure

Letter from Rock Creek

The Leatherback

Van Gogh's Olive Grove: Orange Sky

Eating Outside

Empire, Discourse

Magic



Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort Minneapolis
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-57131-486-5 / 1571314865
ISBN-13 978-1-57131-486-4 / 9781571314864
Zustand Neuware
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