Blue Hour Poems

Name: Blue Hour Poems
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ISBN: 9780060099121

ISBN-10: 0060099127

ISBN-13: 9780060099121

Edition: 2003

Authors: Carolyn Forche

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"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted. "The voice we hear in Blue Hour is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.616



Sequestered Writing


Blue Hour


Curfew


Nocturne


Refuge


Writing Kept Hidden


In the Exclusion Zones


Hive


Prayer


On Earth


Afterdeath


Notes