Another City (eBook)
112 Seiten
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-950-0 (ISBN)
WINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZEHow 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 landscapea thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagento 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 ideasand 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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.3.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Schlagworte | 21st Century • Award • belonging • characters • Cities • City • Contemporary • Copenhagen • Crete • Europe • foreign • Global • Human Experience • Ideas • Literary • loneliness • Metaphor • milkweed books • milkweed editions • People • Place • Reality • Rilke Prize • Travel • twenty-first • urban landscape • Winner • winning |
ISBN-10 | 1-57131-950-6 / 1571319506 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-57131-950-0 / 9781571319500 |
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