Curator of Silence

Name: Curator of Silence
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ISBN: 9780268036614

ISBN-10: 0268036616

ISBN-13: 9780268036614

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jude Nutter

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The title poem--about a group of schoolchildren illustrating Shelley's "Ode to a Nightingale"--ends with the following assertion: "these are the only/lessons they will ever need to learn: that life/is not artifact, but aperture--a stepping into/and a falling away; that to sing is to rise/from the grave of the body. And still/say less than nothing." This idea of the aperture, the gap, the silence that exists between what we want to say and what we actually do say pervades The Curator of Silence. The paradox, of course, is that the creation of art itself makes this gap, as there is always a gulf between the impulse and the gesture, the vision and the poem. Nutter's experience of living for…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English



To the reader


Permission


The hermit thrust


Grave robbing with Rilke


The falcon


The garden party


Maya


The fourth man


The rest of us


The curator of silence


Horses


Still life with Casaba melon



March 2003, and my father remembers the war


Look


The last supper


Meditations : Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ypres


Boys throwing baseball


Epitaph on Interstate 80, Nevada


Giving it away


The silver vase


Elegy for Mumbai


Private mythology


Naming the world


The dream in broad daylight


Observing the afterlife


Crow


The cherry picker


Aurelia aurita


One year of not drinking : a letter at Thanksgiving


The poet in reflection


Ars poetica


A winter portrait of my neighbour George


Crows