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- Utgivningsdatum2011-03-31
- Mått152 x 228 x undefined mm
- Vikt552 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor224
- FörlagSarabande Books, Incorporated
- ISBN9781932511925
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Mark Jarman is the author of nine books of poetry: North Sea (1978), The Rote Walker (1981), Far and Away (1985), The Black Riviera (1990), Iris (1992), Questions for Ecclesiastes (1997), Unholy Sonnets (2000), To the Green Man (2004), and Epistles (2007). He has also published two collections of his prose, The Secret of Poetry (2000) and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (2001). Jarman is an elector of the American Poets' Corner at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. His awards include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award for his poetry, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in poetry. His book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets' Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry prize from the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
- How My Sister, My Mother, and Still Travel Down Balwearie RoadNew PoemsThe Wee SpiderFamily FugueYour Neighbor as YourselfTime MachineHaikuMary SmartThe Prayer ChainSnoringIn the Rose GardenEncounterMondayTo a Brainy Child in DistressEnding with a Line by Curtis MayfieldLast Walk at HomeR. S. ThomasDispatches from Devereux SloughInteresting TimesBone FiresFrom North Sea (1978)ForeignersWe Dare Not Go A-HuntingPlantingThe CloseMy Parents Have Come Home LaughingKicking the Candles OutGoodbye to a PoltergeistLullaby for AmyFrom The Rote Walker (1981)GreensleevesAscension of the Red MadonnaGlossolaliaAccordion MusicThe SpellDescriptions of Heaven and HellThe Rote WalkerWhat Child Is This?From Far and Away (1985)Far and AwayThe SupremesBy-BlowsWhile You Are Gone I Look for ConstellationsPoem in JuneThe City in the SeaCavafy in RedondoFrom The Black Riviera (1990)The ChildrenThe Black RivieraAwakened by Sea LionsThe Shrine and the Burning WheelDays of ‘74Good FridayThe GiftMiss Urquhart’s TiaraFrom Questions for Ecclesiastes (1997)Ground SwellTransfigurationProverbsDressing My DaughtersAfter DisappointmentWaveGridQuestions for EcclesiastesUpwellingUnholy SonnetsLast SuppersThe Worry BirdFrom Unholy Sonnets (2000)PrologueThe Word “Answer”Someone Is Always PrayingCycleBreath Like a House FlySightingsNothing But PleasureThe WorldEpilogueFrom To the Green Man (2004)To the Green ManTestimony of a Roasted ChickenButterflies Under PersimmonAstragaloiFox NightAs Close as BreathingIn the TubeIn Church with Hart CraneGeorge HerbertThe ExcitementFive PsalmsCanticleSong of RolandOver the River and Through the WoodsThe Secret OceanSummerCoyotesA Pair of TanagersPrayer for Our DaughtersFrom Epistles (2007)In the CloudsFor the BirdsTo the TreesOn the StreetThrough the Waves
This is precisely what a new-and-selected collection should be: a book better as well as bigger than any of those its contents are culled from. Confirming the poet’s intergrity and consistency, it attests an invaluably unique poetic personality.”Ray Olson, Booklist (starred review)Subdued and tender, almost without a false move, these pages (reminiscent of Carl Dennis) return to the scenes of his first work, the source of his strength. Readers who think they know Jarman all too well may find an enlightening surprise.”Publishers WeeklyFinally, I admire the way Mark Jarman’s poetry worries spiritual concerns while remaining rooted in the everyday. His Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems collects poems from eight volumes, starting with 1978’s North Sea, and includes 19 new pieces that are as always brave and honest. . . . A great overview collection.”Barbara Hoffert, Library JournalFollowing the development of Jarman’s poetry and his uncompromising vision of poetry-making as sacred work, our contributor, Michelle Boisseau, found herself amazed again and again at how the unaffected discipline of Jarman’s craft helps him plumb the reaches of human experience. One of the most moving and exhilarating experiences she had this year reading poetry.”Kansas City StarThis volume of Mark Jarman’s selected poems represents more than thirty years of work and eight books of poetry. The collection offers a look at Jarman’s transition from writing focused on nostalgia and childhood to poems centered on faith and spirituality and the struggle inherent in those ideals.”American PoetThe myriad gifts of this gathering of poems confirm that Jarman is one of America’s most distinct and important voices, and prove that it is possible to sustain an original style over a long career (in Jarman’s case, an understated, wry, perspicacious, darkly complicated and formal engagement with belief and unbelief) while avoiding self-parody of a falling off of vision.”Lisa Russ Spaar, ImageJarman’s spiritual questions intersect within fact, are inseparable fromhis profound regard for the natural world. . . . His just-released collection, Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems, includes recent poems that regard the confounding violence and beauty at the center of life.Maria Browning, Chapter 16I wish every congregation could have a Mark Jarman in its midst, because a poet’s tithe of attention and language is as valuable as the widow’s mite. Bone Fireswith its meditations on faith and doubt, hope and silence, and the sacred and desecrated fragments of God’s worldis a gift to the whole church and the whole creation.”Katherine Willis Pershey, The Christian Century"Jarman’s new poems are as good as any of his career. . . . Bone Fires serves well as an introduction to the poet’s work, but it must also be welcome to pre-existing Jarman fans. Although there are only 19 new poems, they tackle the full range of his obsessionsfaith, of course, but also family, history, and regret. At 58, Jarman is by no means at the end of his career, in spite of the common assumption that accompanies a book of selected works. This poet seems to anticipate this assumption and answers it in the opening poem, How My Sister, My Mother, and I Still Travel Down Balwearie Road,” which concludes, It is still cold, still dark, just as I said, and late. But not as late as I thought.”Erica Wright, ForeWord ReviewsBone Fires is an excellent representative collection of Jarman’s work, perfect for those who are longtime fans or reading him for the first time.”New Pages"Jarman, who teaches at Vanderbilt University, writes about family life, memory, grace, the night sky and other mysteries divine."Ray Waddle, The Tennessean