Wake
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Wake

  1. English
  2. PDF
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About this book

Throughout Bin Ramke's book of poems, certain elements recur insistently: birds and boyhood, betrayal and longings that careen between flesh and faith.
Ramke refuses to distinguish between scientific and poetic approaches to knowing the world. In Wake, the poet does not pretend to offer wisdom but instead offers words, and the words are given as much freedom as possible. The title itself resonates with all its presumptive meanings: an alternative to dreaming, a ceremony binding the living to the dead, and the pattern left briefly in water by boats—handwriting as turbulence in a fluid medium.
Elements of the world at large are woven into the language of these poems, resulting in a conversation among transcripts from the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer, passages from the notebooks of John James Audubon, a meditation on the Book of Daniel, whole epic sentences out of Milton, and the modest observations of the struggling poet himself.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. The Ruined World
  3. Essay
  4. A Theory of Fantasy
  5. Chivalric
  6. A Little Ovid Late in the Day
  7. Livery of Seisin
  8. Shostakovich and Kubatsky in Archangel
  9. Mercy
  10. Someone Whispers Below in the Garden
  11. Sad Stories
  12. Grass Fires
  13. Small Noise the Weather Makes
  14. Body Parts (1968)
  15. & the War in France
  16. Another Lean, Unwashed Artificer
  17. A History of His Heart
  18. Pretty Words, Parabolas
  19. Enter Celia, with a Writing
  20. A Great Noise the World Makes
  21. A History of Tenderness
  22. For I Have Already Been Once . . .
  23. And the Light Never Waned in the Same Way Twice
  24. How Light Is Spent
  25. Toying
  26. Toy Houses in the Landscape
  27. Crisis
  28. Famous Poems of the Past Explained
  29. Testimony
  30. Notes