I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (eBook)
104 Seiten
BOA Editions Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-938160-80-6 (ISBN)
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance is a collection of poems that assign new meanings to the people and things of the past. The book moves in three sections through a fantastic landscape that maps human fragility. The poems in the first section speak to matters of the heart—intimacy and loss—punctuated by lovers who leave. The second section is comprised of prose poems chronicling misadventures and conspiracies: Russian spies on Wilshire Boulevard, artichokes that mate for life, and secret photographs of God. Finally, the third section pans out from individual experience, hosting the collective in fable-like reflections. Together, the poems in Extravagance mark with fragile acceptance the surreal extravagance of being alive. The RelentlessOne day we'll know how longthe dead have to be deadbefore they feel hunger. One day it'll be summer forever. In the meantime, the weather,looking for its cue, keeps an eye on me;and I keep whatever money's in my pocketcrumpled in a ball. A relentlessresponsibility dogs me, and the funny thingis, these are the lyrics to a happy song. Go ahead, tap your foot,snap your fingers. We're roasting a pig in the yard. Rick Bursky is the author of Death Obscura (Sarabande Books, 2010) and The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press, 2004), winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. He lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.
ONE
THE RELENTLESS..........4
THE FEAR..........5
BUT FIRST..........6
THERE ARE NEW GAMES WE CAN PLAY..........7
CLOUD THEORY..........8
WE WERE SIMILAR IN THAT WAY..........10
THE VOCABULARIES..........11
I’M NO LONGER TROUBLED BY THE EXTRAVAGANCE..........12
ANOTHER SIMONY..........13
LOVE AND OTHER ACADEMIC EXERCISES..........14
I’VE ALREADY SAID TOO MUCH..........15
THE INTIMACIES..........16
ALL THE BOREDOMS IN THE WORLD..........17
THOUGH..........18
THE EXPERIMENTS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER..........19
THIS IS YOURS..........20
NOW I’LL BEGIN MAKING EXCUSES..........21
NOTES TAKEN DURING AN ARRHYTHMIA..........22
THE GUERDON..........23
THE PANDEMONIUM..........24
THE NATURE OF THE CORRESPONDENCE AND THE REQUIRED HEROICS..........25
I’M TELLING YOU THIS ANYWAY..........26
CUI BONO..........27
THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN..........28
QUI VIVE..........29
THE ENDING..........30
TWO
MY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO A YOUNG SEAN CONNERY..........32
THE RING OF THE FISHERMAN..........33
MORTAL WISH..........34
THE LEGERDEMAIN..........35
THE DOOR..........36
RITUALS..........37
THE CURATOR OF CLOSETS..........38
DECEMBER..........39
THREE
THE NEW HEROES..........41
THE ACCORDION PLAYER'S WINDOW..........42
THAT SEAGULL..........43
THE PITY..........44
THE IMPLICATIONS..........45
I’VE CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT EVERYTHING..........46
I’M THE MUSEUM OF WHAT’S-LEFT-OF-US..........47
SHE EXPLAINED ME TO HER MOTHER USING LATINATE WORDS..........48
THE TAMING..........49
AND THEN EMPYREAN..........50
GENUS OF SMALL SOUNDS..........51
THE NEW SKILLS..........52
THESE WERE OUR BEST YEARS..........53
THE MAN IN THE MOON RETIRES..........54
THE CAIRN..........55
THE FOREST..........56
INSTEAD..........57
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.9.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
Schlagworte | American poems about life • Family poetry • Love poems • Modern American poets • Poems on relationships • Poems on spirituality • Southern California |
ISBN-10 | 1-938160-80-0 / 1938160800 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-938160-80-6 / 9781938160806 |
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