Music for a Wedding
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Music for a Wedding

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eBook - ePub

Music for a Wedding

About this book

The poems in Lauren Clark's debut book, Music for a Wedding, move fluidly and unforgettably between the rituals of monogamy, death, loneliness, and the body in search of what might last forever. In the abandonment of those who die and those who leave, Clark's speakers are orphic in their use of song as a mode of enduring the hours. Like sybils, Clark's poems make the entrails of what's left behind luminous, even if what is presented is darkness, "that low velvet we make / within ourselves". Their poetry is at once free of the formalities associated with lyric poetry and full of its own novel shapes that only Clark could devise. Their poetry queers our understanding of poetics and what a book of poems can be by dwelling in intimate corners of the self that may seem otherwise insensate without their taking us in to witness such depths. In Clark's hands, the whole of the world--in poetry and on the ground--is preternatural, requiring of us dedication and devotion. But not to the usual rituals of mourning and prayer. Rather, "darkness is to remind [us] what [we] could not see before", that in the absence of being with others, the only true devotion left is grief.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. [untitled]
  6. Mothers Day
  7. Ladies Grove
  8. I Have Nothing
  9. Someone Else’s Wedding
  10. May Day
  11. Five Minute Dream
  12. Self-Portrait with Bees
  13. Heirloom
  14. Epithalamion
  15. Dedicated to the One I Love
  16. Carmina 5
  17. George Clark across the United States
  18. In Hibernation
  19. Listening to “Rolling in the Deep” for Twenty Hours Straight
  20. Aubade
  21. In a Dream We Are Eating Dinner Together by the Atlantic Ocean
  22. Observation Car
  23. Carmina 101
  24. The Reception Continues
  25. Interlude
  26. Like This
  27. I am dead
  28. Prairie Village
  29. Kim Kardashian and Ray J Sex Tape
  30. Two Weddings
  31. Everything Will Change
  32. Western Zuihitsu
  33. I See Jeff Daniels in the Street
  34. Interlude
  35. Reprise (reprise)
  36. Afterfeast
  37. Vortex Temporum
  38. Parable
  39. Interlude
  40. Antiepithalamion
  41. The bride
  42. Ritual
  43. Carmina 5
  44. Vigil
  45. Layla
  46. Illinois in Spring
  47. Notes
  48. Acknowledgments

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