In My Unknowing

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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In his new poetry collection, Chard deNiord explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing.I WEPT WITH JOY ABOVE THE RIVERI wept with joy above the river.I wept with sorrow above the river.My tears were clear, both sweet and bitter.One leaf cried out to another,“Empty me today of all my color.Fill me tomorrow with a shot of sugar.”This was the still ritual for my feet:To stand on the earth that tookof earth earth with ill and sing.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-25
Mått152 x 203 x 8 mm
Vikt136 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor96
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822966159

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Chard deNiord is cofounder of the New England College MFA program in poetry. He is the author of the poetry collections Asleep in the Fire, Sharp Golden Thorn, Night Mowing, The Double Truth, and Interstate. His book Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs is a collection of interviews with American poets. His second collection of interviews with poets is I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets.

In My Unknowing, Chard deNiord’s sixth collection of poems, we find ourselves in a world beheld by the spark of seeing, on the border of Platonic emission: a world of salt sorrow and red lust, coterminous with everything at once. To read these poems is to float at a holy distance over the earth, herein recognized as the heaven it has always been, as no other place would do for living forever. It is a world about to evanesce, but is as yet legible to us in these masterful poems, which are in themselves a species of musical awareness.