Spar
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Spar

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Spar

About this book

Karen Volkman's award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her first poem begins, "Someone was searching for a Form of Fire," and this wild urge to seek form—and thus definition—in the most uncontainable of elements propels the book forward; each poem maps the mind's evolving positions in response to its variable and perilous encounters. Sometimes the encounter is romantic or purely carnal, a sensual landscape of human relations. At other times, nature itself has an almost humanly emotional connection to the speaker. While very much a living voice, the poems' speaker is not a consistent self but a mutable figure buffeted by tenderness, terror, irony, or lust into elaborate evasions, exclamations, verbal hijinks, and lyric flights. As its title suggests, Spar embodies both resistance and aspiration, while its epigraphs further emphasize the simultaneous allure and danger of the unknown within the sensual and material worlds and in the mind itself.

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Information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780877458074
eBook ISBN
9781587294167
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Create Desire
  2. I won’t go in today
  3. Shrewd star
  4. The problem of these
  5. ‘‘Why are you here’’
  6. If it be event
  7. Meet me two years
  8. More feet on more
  9. May
  10. What, I said
  11. There Comes a time
  12. What we know
  13. Kiss Me Deadly
  14. O verb, o void
  15. Lady of the lake
  16. August could ask
  17. Yellow drapes
  18. Although the paths
  19. There was a stare
  20. And when the nights
  21. It could be a bird
  22. Poem (My hayseed harlequin)
  23. Or would triumph
  24. Octaves, ovations
  25. The first greeting
  26. I was watching
  27. Now I promise
  28. When kiss spells
  29. Betrayal
  30. He deciphers
  31. Tender feather
  32. Yes the red flower
  33. A story left
  34. I never wish to
  35. Dear noon
  36. Shadow of a Doubt
  37. The rain falls
  38. Winter Abstract
  39. A light says why
  40. O coronet
  41. The end of the day
  42. Implorers, connivers
  43. What I meet of
  44. And the urge is less
  45. Poem (Black corners of winter)
  46. I have a friend
  47. To take, to make
  48. Do not think, beloved
  49. Lost he says
  50. Heroic Roses
  51. No noise subtracts
  52. I believe there is
  53. We did things