What Is Amazing

Name: What Is Amazing
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ISBN: 9780819573698

ISBN-10: 0819573698

ISBN-13: 9780819573698

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Authors: Heather Christle

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Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and readers, reasoning their way to unreasonable conclusions. These poems try to understand how it is that we come to recognize and differentiate objects and beings, how wholly each is attached to its name,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 3/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English




The Seaside!


Self-Portrait with Fire


Teamwork Should Come from the Soul


If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology


People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef


Moss Does Not Love Other Moss


To Kew by Tram


No Light and No Hands


An Activity


How Like an Island


More of Form Is More of Content


Talk Radio


Taxonomy of That November


Way out in the Country


I'll Be Me and You Be Goethe


More Swans and More Women


Such a Lovely Garden


Wallpaper Everywhere Even the Ceiling



We Are Not Getting Anywhere


The Small Husband


Bash


Saturday


It Feels Like It Is on Purpose


Up Again with the Night


The Angry Faun


In Accordance


The Spicier


Difficulties


I Am Coming Over


A Very Remarkable Story


And Then We Clap Ourselves Together


What Is Amazing



What Will Grow Here


Happy and Glorious


Parking Lot


Go and Play Outside


Some Combinations


I Will Know You by Your Red Carnation


Ladies a Basket


Last Time I Wore This Sweater


For Henri


To Do


Infinitives


Route 109


Classic Hook Shape


Under the Moon the Knocking


Directly at the Sun


A Long Life


Basic


All Things Bright and Beautiful


Acknowledgments