University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 Paper: 978-0-8229-6664-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8837-3 Library of Congress Classification PS3610.U5335T45 2021 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and with a “you” that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? The Thicket takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Kasey Jueds is the author of Keeper, which won the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She lives in New York State’s Catskill Mountains.
REVIEWS
“Entering The Thicket it’s as if I walk into another world, one where things are more vivid and alive. Like the land of fables and fairy tales, the Technicolor wonder along the yellow brick road.” —Orion
“These incisive and ruminating poems compel readers to look past the distractions of modern life, placing them among weed-ridden roadsides, in flowing rivers, and in the rustling of trees. Through these images, Jueds interrogates what it means to exist, to change, and to search for connection.” —Read Poetry
“What expands inside Jueds’s new book is an irreducible reality—a sense that makes memory flicker, a knowing that underscores the distance between a word and what it calls or recalls. The Thicket swells with feelings too pure to name. It swells with what it cannot explicate, with what it cannot contain in the vessel of its exquisite phrases. And, to be clear, that is not remotely a failure. It is gorgeous.” —Plume Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
I.
The Silo
Of Pink
Briar Rose
A Brief History of Silk
The Trees
The Girl with No Hands
Drought
Neither Have I Wings
Apart from Me, and Still
The Kingdom
Unknown Natural Forces
The Tool Shed
China Rabbit
Each
Messenger
Not All the Animals Sleep
At Cape Henlopen
II.
The Far Field
The Hedge
Notebook of Air
That Far North
Litany (Paulownia)
The Guardians
Not All the Winds Have Names
A Separate Bird Each Time (Origami)
Litany (Easter)
Pure
Suminagashi
Sapling
Love Poem with No Mountains in Sight
Unbidden
III.
Looking Back (The Far Field)
Self-Portrait as Lost Earring
Birthday
Litany (California)
Small Music
The Blind
Litany (Over Eastern Washington)
The Field
Litany (Boreal)
Inverting the Winter
Because They Mostly Appear at Dusk
Talisman
Kittatinny
Owl
Coracle Means a Small Vessel, a Boat
Body of Water
Nightjar
Notes
Acknowledgments
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 Paper: 978-0-8229-6664-7 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8837-3
The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and with a “you” that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? The Thicket takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Kasey Jueds is the author of Keeper, which won the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She lives in New York State’s Catskill Mountains.
REVIEWS
“Entering The Thicket it’s as if I walk into another world, one where things are more vivid and alive. Like the land of fables and fairy tales, the Technicolor wonder along the yellow brick road.” —Orion
“These incisive and ruminating poems compel readers to look past the distractions of modern life, placing them among weed-ridden roadsides, in flowing rivers, and in the rustling of trees. Through these images, Jueds interrogates what it means to exist, to change, and to search for connection.” —Read Poetry
“What expands inside Jueds’s new book is an irreducible reality—a sense that makes memory flicker, a knowing that underscores the distance between a word and what it calls or recalls. The Thicket swells with feelings too pure to name. It swells with what it cannot explicate, with what it cannot contain in the vessel of its exquisite phrases. And, to be clear, that is not remotely a failure. It is gorgeous.” —Plume Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
I.
The Silo
Of Pink
Briar Rose
A Brief History of Silk
The Trees
The Girl with No Hands
Drought
Neither Have I Wings
Apart from Me, and Still
The Kingdom
Unknown Natural Forces
The Tool Shed
China Rabbit
Each
Messenger
Not All the Animals Sleep
At Cape Henlopen
II.
The Far Field
The Hedge
Notebook of Air
That Far North
Litany (Paulownia)
The Guardians
Not All the Winds Have Names
A Separate Bird Each Time (Origami)
Litany (Easter)
Pure
Suminagashi
Sapling
Love Poem with No Mountains in Sight
Unbidden
III.
Looking Back (The Far Field)
Self-Portrait as Lost Earring
Birthday
Litany (California)
Small Music
The Blind
Litany (Over Eastern Washington)
The Field
Litany (Boreal)
Inverting the Winter
Because They Mostly Appear at Dusk
Talisman
Kittatinny
Owl
Coracle Means a Small Vessel, a Boat
Body of Water
Nightjar
Notes
Acknowledgments
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