The Swerve
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The Swerve

  1. 68 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Swerve

About this book

Julith Jedamus writes with an intensity that is at once passionate and precise. The poems in The Swerve create unforgettable landscapes: the whorls and spires of juniper in falling snow, Dutch skies of iridescent grey and lilac, the fire-scorched mountains of the American West. They are peopled by dancers and prisoners, sacrificial children and murderous wives; they reshape the imagination. We see the Netherlands in Van Gogh's colours as he walks and works, breathing the twilight, and the Thames in Whistler's; Lorca and Euripides are living presences. The timeless dramas of sacrifice and mourning, rescue and betrayal are re-enacted, meanings dissolved and remade. Long-vanished children walk home through the dark, ghosting a path of sparks'. Like the scull she rows on the Thames, Julith Jedamus's poems skim the fine line / between flying and drowning', unstable as air', dangerous, alive.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781847771346
eBook ISBN
9781847776396
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
The White Cliff
Belle Tout
Bob-Mill
The White Horse
Rievaulx I: The Abbey
Rievaulx II: Aelred
The Lucombe Oak
E.T. in the Isère
The Cull
Henry Moore’s Mother
Whistler at Midnight
On the Fast Train from Cambridge to London, Second Class, No A/C, Nine Tunnels
Epiphany
Fine Boat
Stowing a Single in Furnivall Boathouse on the Chiswick Mall
The Drowning of Drenthe
Van Gogh in Drenthe
Love-Sonnet to a Rock in Bohuslän
Dommaring
Osage Orange
What This Juniper Says About His Mind
The Melvina Fire
Barn Burning, Fall River, Wisconsin, July 1966
Lost Letter to Crane
The Red Tide
Two Ghazals for Aziz, Who Spent Eighteen Years in Darkness in Tazmamart Prison
Romance de la Luna
Romance SonĂĄmbulo
La Monja Gitana
Reyerta
Circumspect
Admetus, Alcestis
Carpe Diem
In Troezen
Sacrifice
The Swerve
Snow Is Not Celibate
Fixed Form
Myth and Muse
A Second Moon
The Best Time to Talk About Neutrinos
Merce Cunningham at Craneway, Last Rehearsals, November 2008
On the Day He Suffered Most, Sycamores
A Glass of Water
In Memory of the Photographer Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bentley,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. The White Cliff
  7. Belle Tout
  8. Bob-Mill
  9. The White Horse
  10. Rievaulx I: The Abbey
  11. Rievaulx II: Aelred
  12. The Lucombe Oak
  13. E.T. in the Isère
  14. The Cull
  15. Henry Moore’s Mother
  16. Whistler at Midnight
  17. On the Fast Train from Cambridge to London, Second Class, No A/C, Nine Tunnels
  18. Epiphany
  19. Fine Boat
  20. Stowing a Single in Furnivall Boathouse on the Chiswick Mall
  21. The Drowning of Drenthe
  22. Van Gogh in Drenthe
  23. Love-Sonnet to a Rock in Bohuslän
  24. Dommaring
  25. Osage Orange
  26. What This Juniper Says About His Mind
  27. The Melvina Fire
  28. Barn Burning, Fall River, Wisconsin, July 1966
  29. Lost Letter to Crane
  30. The Red Tide
  31. Two Ghazals for Aziz, Who Spent Eighteen Years in Darkness in Tazmamart Prison
  32. Romance de la Luna
  33. Romance SonĂĄmbulo
  34. La Monja Gitana
  35. Reyerta
  36. Circumspect
  37. Admetus, Alcestis
  38. Carpe Diem
  39. In Troezen
  40. Sacrifice
  41. The Swerve
  42. Snow Is Not Celibate
  43. Fixed Form
  44. Myth and Muse
  45. A Second Moon
  46. The Best Time to Talk about Neutrinos
  47. Merce Cunningham at Craneway, Last Rehearsals, November 2008
  48. On the Day He Suffered Most, Sycamores
  49. A Glass of Water
  50. In Memory of the Photographer Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bentley, Who Died of Pneumonia after Walking through a Blizzard Near Jericho, Vermont, December 23, 1931
  51. Directive
  52. Notes
  53. About the Author
  54. Copyright