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- 9781772124538
- Book Title
- To Float, to Drown, to Close Up, to Open
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Women Authors, Canadian, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 4.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where "language tied to the land" evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the fragmented childhood beginnings that lead to the formation of a young artist who moves from music, through theatre, to poetry. The passionate relationships and complex juxtapositions of art and performance that form an artist's life find voice here in the symphonic structure of the long poem, the provocative individual prose poems, and the final stretched sonnet sequence that interrogates a lost love, "Still. Shimmering in the morning wind. And gone." These fiercely poised works are layered and rich, with sensuous attention to line and breath: a major work from an accomplished poet.And in that space of summer afternoon, the image born of soundand light inhabits all her blood and bone, the mind ignites. She seesthe fire - space for her is stage now, theatre is the flame. She sees itburning all the way back to the Sable River, the lamp, the voices,the two old people, in the dark,without wall or roof or postor beam - and even as her father buries refusein the cellar hole, turns all this under, sheseizes it, picks up her torch,and runs.--from the title poem
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Publisher
University of Alberta Press
ISBN-10
1772124532
ISBN-13
9781772124538
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038766777
Product Key Features
Book Title
To Float, to Drown, to Close Up, to Open
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Canadian, General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.4.P536
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"Pierce creates movements in the rhythm of the estuary of Sable River, where she grew up, opening, closing up, floating and drowning as consistently as moon directs the tides. Hers is a poetry of attentiveness, reaching back through the years and into the future without sentimentality" [Full review at https://freefallmagazine.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/review-of-e-alex-pierces-to-float-to-drown-to-close-up-to-open/]--Joan Shillington, Freefall Magazine, "We are immersed in Pierce's baptismal font of words, held deeply, only to emerge into a new air, made over, revived by a poetry of the rarest beauty. 'The Creek' surely is a masterpiece, a world poem created from the cross currents of the heart and the gold-brown waters of the Sable River."--Harry Thurston, author of Keeping Watch at the End of the World, "Pierce creates movements in the rhythm of the estuary of Sable River, where she grew up, opening, closing up, floating and drowning as consistently as moon directs the tides.... Hers is a poetry of attentiveness, reaching back through the years and into the future without sentimentality..." [Full review at https://freefallmagazine.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/review-of-e-alex-pierces-to-float-to-drown-to-close-up-to-open/]
Table of Content
To float, to drown, to close up, to open - a throat3 To float, to drown...19 Full Moon22 The boy. The boy is her beloved.23 Medway River, Carousel25 Nothing more lonely26 The CreekMithan, to conceal31 A Dug Well32 Tempest33 The sky full of empty rooms35 Bach Prelude: Reprise36 Mithan37 Not wanting it to end39 The fetch of the wind40 It is in me forever41 VindaugaThe Stanzas. Rooms.44 You want to say the word chemise47 It could have been that morning48 The opening, the newness, as if it were now49 In an afternoon, at your house50 Not of you. Of the capturing51 Now, on YouTube, the camera52 Heat from the photo lamps53 Enraptured. Christmas morning at your house54 The two Polish chairs55 I can still see you, us. Side by side at Logan Airport56 Every Sunday morning we would set off57 Something about the dark58 What were they doing59 Honey and locusts. A man in pain60 In this last hour61 The vulnerability that doesn't show62 Should I tell you now63 Or have we lived it64 It's not the heart. It's the cry65 Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo66 We've come so far67 The boards are bareCoda, Aubade.71 The way white lilacs73 Notes83 Acknowledgements
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2020-438645
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Robert Kroetsch Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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