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Odd Blocks
About this book
In Odd Blocks Kay Ryan, the acclaimed American poet, presents her work to European readers for the first time. The book includes twenty-one new poems, seven of them first published here. Ryan's flamboyant imagination sparks in spare and elegant verse. Edges, ' she has said, are the most powerful parts of the poem. The more edges you have the more power you have.' These poems take by surprise, and increase in resonance.
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from Say Uncle (2000)
SAY UNCLE
Every day
you say,
Just one
more try.
Then another
irrecoverable
day slips by.
You will
say ankle,
you will
say knuckle;
why won’t
you why
won’t you
say uncle?
STAR BLOCK
There is no such thing
as star block.
We do not think of
locking out the light
of other galaxies.
It is light
so rinsed of impurities
(heat, for instance)
that it excites
no antibodies in us.
Yet people are
curiously soluble
in starlight.
Bathed in its
absence of insistence
their substance
loosens willingly,
their bright
designs dissolve.
Not proximity
but distance
burns us with love.
CORNERS
All but saints
and hermits
mean to paint
themselves
toward an exit
leaving a
pleasant ocean
of azure or jonquil
ending neatly
at the doorsill.
But sometimes
something happens:
a minor dislocation
by which the doors
and windows
undergo a
small rotation
to the left a little
—but repeatedly.
It isn’t
obvious immediately.
Only toward evening
and from the
farthest corners
of the houses
of the painters
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- from Flamingo Watching (1994)
- from Elephant Rocks (1996)
- from Say Uncle (2000)
- from The Niagara River (2005)
- New Poems
- INDEX OF TITLES
- About the Author
- Copyright