University of Wisconsin Press, 2017 Paper: 978-0-299-31434-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3557.A7162W67 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley
In these poems Max Garland confesses, even revels in, the fabricated nature of memory. He links personal and localized patterns (fingerprints, plowed fields) to the motions animating the insides of atoms and the unfurling of remote galaxies. Back on earth, the poems honor the decidedly homespun quality of grit—how creatures both animal and human bear up in the face of mounting odds against them. Garland suggests that imagination itself requires grit, to be called upon when the more spectacular angels are otherwise occupied.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Max Garland, originally from Kentucky, is the author of The Postal Confessions and Hunger Wide as Heaven. He is a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and the first writer-in-residence for the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
REVIEWS
"Somewhere between the joyous ecstasies of Rumi and the sweet and sometimes doleful observations of Whitman, there's a spot on the continuum of poetry where Max Garland sits and says his luscious, witty, remarkable poems. He gives us the it at the heart of existence, which for all but the finest of artists is all-too-often unreachable." —Robert Wrigley
"Each poem is a gift of seeing, a gift of reflection, a mirror for the holy. We, as readers, get to taste what language can do when it melts into our tongues, flavors our lives." —Kao Kalia Yang author of The Late Homecomer
"Garland's long-limbed, resonant poems beg to be read aloud. Accessible, finely intelligent, laced with good humor, this is his best collection yet." —David Graham, author of Stutter Monk
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sway
I.
At the Opening of an Exhibition
Hymn for Joseph
Sciurus Carolinesis
Grit
Joy
The Word We Used for It
The Woman Who Waved from the River
If a Man Had a Boat
Rehabilitation
Mega-Foods
Keep in Touch
Bat in the House
A Photograph of Earth from Space, 1972
II.
Orion Spur
Heaven
Chesterfields
Ghost Army
The Bees
Hollyhocks
Green Day
Nightly News
Get Right With God
I Call Your Name
When I Think of You I Think of Her
Stay
Spring Snow
III.
Search Committee
Reception
Jesus Jogs
If You Really Had To
Happiness
Tupelo
After Leaving The Poetics of Space on a Chair on the Deck All Night
The World as You Saw It
The Wren
Snowflake
Chickadees
Home
Blink
The Best Things in Life Are the Most Expensive
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2017 Paper: 978-0-299-31434-7
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Wrigley
In these poems Max Garland confesses, even revels in, the fabricated nature of memory. He links personal and localized patterns (fingerprints, plowed fields) to the motions animating the insides of atoms and the unfurling of remote galaxies. Back on earth, the poems honor the decidedly homespun quality of grit—how creatures both animal and human bear up in the face of mounting odds against them. Garland suggests that imagination itself requires grit, to be called upon when the more spectacular angels are otherwise occupied.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Max Garland, originally from Kentucky, is the author of The Postal Confessions and Hunger Wide as Heaven. He is a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and the first writer-in-residence for the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
REVIEWS
"Somewhere between the joyous ecstasies of Rumi and the sweet and sometimes doleful observations of Whitman, there's a spot on the continuum of poetry where Max Garland sits and says his luscious, witty, remarkable poems. He gives us the it at the heart of existence, which for all but the finest of artists is all-too-often unreachable." —Robert Wrigley
"Each poem is a gift of seeing, a gift of reflection, a mirror for the holy. We, as readers, get to taste what language can do when it melts into our tongues, flavors our lives." —Kao Kalia Yang author of The Late Homecomer
"Garland's long-limbed, resonant poems beg to be read aloud. Accessible, finely intelligent, laced with good humor, this is his best collection yet." —David Graham, author of Stutter Monk
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sway
I.
At the Opening of an Exhibition
Hymn for Joseph
Sciurus Carolinesis
Grit
Joy
The Word We Used for It
The Woman Who Waved from the River
If a Man Had a Boat
Rehabilitation
Mega-Foods
Keep in Touch
Bat in the House
A Photograph of Earth from Space, 1972
II.
Orion Spur
Heaven
Chesterfields
Ghost Army
The Bees
Hollyhocks
Green Day
Nightly News
Get Right With God
I Call Your Name
When I Think of You I Think of Her
Stay
Spring Snow
III.
Search Committee
Reception
Jesus Jogs
If You Really Had To
Happiness
Tupelo
After Leaving The Poetics of Space on a Chair on the Deck All Night
The World as You Saw It
The Wren
Snowflake
Chickadees
Home
Blink
The Best Things in Life Are the Most Expensive
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE