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To Float, to Drown, to Close Up, to Open, Paperback by Pierce, E. Alex, Brand...
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781772124538
- Book Title
- To Float, to Drown, to Close Up, to Open
- Book Series
- Robert Kroetsch Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Women Authors, Canadian, General
- Item Weight
- 5.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Product Identifiers
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
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Canadian, General
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Robert Kroetsch Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-438645
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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/]
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Table Of Content
To float, to drown, to close up, to open - a throat 3 To float, to drown 19 Full Moon 22 The boy. The boy is her beloved. 23 Medway River, Carousel 25 Nothing more lonely 26 The Creek Mithan, to conceal 31 A Dug Well 32 Tempest 33 The sky full of empty rooms 35 Bach Prelude: Reprise 36 Mithan 37 Not wanting it to end 39 The fetch of the wind 40 It is in me forever 41 Vindauga The Stanzas. Rooms. 44 You want to say the word chemise 47 It could have been that morning 48 The opening, the newness, as if it were now 49 In an afternoon, at your house 50 Not of you. Of the capturing 51 Now, on YouTube, the camera 52 Heat from the photo lamps 53 Enraptured. Christmas morning at your house 54 The two Polish chairs 55 I can still see you, us. Side by side at Logan Airport 56 Every Sunday morning we would set off 57 Something about the dark 58 What were they doing 59 Honey and locusts. A man in pain 60 In this last hour 61 The vulnerability that doesn't show 62 Should I tell you now 63 Or have we lived it 64 It's not the heart. It's the cry 65 Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo 66 We've come so far 67 The boards are bare Coda, Aubade. 71 The way white lilacs 73 Notes 83 Acknowledgements
Synopsis
I cannot even say come to me. Come wind, come eye. Restless, see me. Let me see. -- from "Vindauga" The poems in E. Alex Pierce's new collection invite readers to meditate upon language embedded in landscape, and trace the formation of a young artist who begins in music, arrives at theatre, and ends in poetry. From striking individual poems such as "The fetch of the wind" and "The sky full of empty rooms" to the stunning stretched sonnet sequence "The Stanzas. Rooms."--which searches a passionate relationship with a photographer for the beginnings of a poet's voice--the collection moves from the fragmented textures of childhood memory in an East Coast village to the complex juxtaposition of art museums, performance, opera, and string quartets. These fiercely poised poems are layered and rich, with a sensuous attention to line and breath; a major new volume from an accomplished poet., Accomplished poet's new collection of sensuous, intelligent poems that contemplate art, memory, and personal longing., And in that space of summer afternoon, the image born of sound and light inhabits all her blood and bone, the mind ignites. She sees the fire-space for her is stage now, theatre is the flame. She sees it burning all the way back to the Sable River, the lamp, the voices, the two old people, in the dark, without wall or roof or post or beam-and even as her father buries refuse in the cellar hole, turns all this under, she seizes it, picks up her torch, and runs. Book jacket., 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 sound and light inhabits all her blood and bone, the mind ignites. She sees the fire - space for her is stage now, theatre is the flame. She sees it burning all the way back to the Sable River, the lamp, the voices, the two old people, in the dark, without wall or roof or post or beam - and even as her father buries refuse in the cellar hole, turns all this under, she seizes it, picks up her torch, and runs. --from the title poem
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.P536
Copyright Date
2020
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