These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

About this book

A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good —a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.

With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves "separate / from [our] thoughts and experiences." After all, "No work of love / will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart." But how do we act on fullness of heart? How, knowing as we do that "genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest texts"?

Thoughtful but never preachy, Charara sits beside us, granting us access to life's countless unglamorous dilemmas: crushing a spider when we promised we wouldn't, nearing madness from a newborn's weeping, resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. "Good poems demand to be written from inside the poet, " we are reminded. And that is where we find ourselves here: inside a lively and ethical mind, entertained by Charara's good company even as goodness challenges us to do more.

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Information

Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781571315410
eBook ISBN
9781639550555
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Self-Portrait in Retrospect
  7. Under the Sun
  8. Older
  9. Some Sentences
  10. Porch Haiku
  11. Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms
  12. Neighbors
  13. Empathy
  14. Terrorism
  15. Self-Portrait as Trees
  16. On the Death of Other People’s Children
  17. All These Questions You Ask
  18. Self-Portrait with Woman on the Subway
  19. The Problem with Me Is the Problem with You
  20. Unresolved Haiku
  21. Prelude
  22. Fugue
  23. Self-Portrait after a Funeral
  24. Bees, Honeycombs, Honey
  25. The Symbolic Life
  26. Self-Portrait as Scientific Observation
  27. The Day Phil Levine Died
  28. The Prize
  29. Mean
  30. Self-Portrait with Curses at 35,000 Feet
  31. Michigan
  32. The Night the Dog Died
  33. Self-Portrait with Dog, Possum, Newspaper, and Shovel
  34. The Other Woman
  35. Self-Portrait with Cassette Player
  36. Personal Political Poem
  37. Nothing Happened in 1999
  38. That Summer That Year during the Heat Wave
  39. 1979
  40. Ode on an Abandoned House
  41. Apokaluptein
  42. Notes
  43. Acknowledgments
  44. About the Author