I entered without words
eBook - PDF

I entered without words

Poems

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

I entered without words

Poems

About this book

An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape converge

In this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three-dimensional space.

Composed and printed in a landscape format, these minimal, quiet, playful, meditative, and open-ended poems are experimental in form and inviting in subject. Drawing inspiration from poets like A. R. Ammons, Lorine Niedecker, Gustaf Sobin, and Jean Valentine, and visual artists like Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, and Cecilia Vicuña, Gladding discovers exciting spatial possibilities within the page itself by exploiting white space and varying typefaces. As the page opens into the compositional field that Mallarmé, Ponge, and others conceived it to be, words constellate around bolded through lines to offer multiple, interwoven meanings, interacting with each other and the reader, who moves freely among them, to make poems that are spatial, nonlinear, and different with each reading. And, adding yet another dimension to the collection, many of the poems have facing-page French versions.

"Landscape-oriented" in every sense, I entered without words is an ambitious, innovative, and striking collection by a major poet.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. the mother tongue licked me into being
  4. that mare sometimes appeared
  5. l’eau se fait calme quelquefois
  6. now silent becomes listen
  7. have I attended the birds
  8. la montagne reflĂšte la blessure
  9. swallows light in the open
  10. what kind of quest is this
  11. I like having nothing
  12. guest bed
  13. on this green live languages graze
  14. morning in a fog
  15. I still believe in the dark work of idleness
  16. call it harvest
  17. this heart of summer gleams
  18. who is the girl I push so high
  19. qui est la fille que je pousse si haut
  20. messy eater
  21. our young register damage in radiant flesh
  22. je quitte la maison d’ĂȘtre en plein vent du ciel
  23. unhinged I left the house to wind
  24. in my sickness the sky kept spinning
  25. what it means to be reduced
  26. space is not matter
  27. the poor hide what they can
  28. who cooks for you awwwlll
  29. ribs were the first rafters
  30. your hand opens to wave
  31. dark was the night cold was the ground
  32. the stone vault singing
  33. la chapelle en pierre chantant
  34. that light out of darkness may rise
  35. over your cities the grasses will grow
  36. an artist’s best friend is time boredom sway
  37. is art the idling silence
  38. à l’art aigu de roche et ange
  39. merci pour ces trĂšs belles ratures
  40. thank you for your very beautiful cross-outs
  41. why everything beautiful hurts
  42. pourquoi toutes les belles choses piquent
  43. lost in lit screens the readers with their books
  44. look back at me my love belong here
  45. last goose
  46. derniĂšre oie
  47. a deficiency hollows places
  48. out of nowhere snow
  49. paper white
  50. a stiff wind makes them more beautiful
  51. la mort n’a pas arasĂ© l’espĂ©rance de la neige
  52. death has not eroded hope of snow
  53. I seek the cold mountain spring
  54. je cherche le motif glacé
  55. to knock with gentle barbarism
  56. trouver la porte frapper entrer
  57. des herbes folles
  58. wild grasses
  59. the white flame sank offering only the gesture
  60. Îté de la flamme elle lisait fumait
  61. le vent s’arrache de la langue maternelle exprimetout
  62. wind wrenches free her tongue
  63. every being constitutes a probe employed in a newdirection