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Finalist, 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry | Honoree, 2024 Midland Authors Award in Poetry
Elton Glaser's ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: "I'm learning to speak in the accents of adieu." As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and "swaggering lilies," and a swan like "a sullen bride in her white finery." With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, "Memory without passion would be better lost."
Elton Glaser's ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: "I'm learning to speak in the accents of adieu." As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and "swaggering lilies," and a swan like "a sullen bride in her white finery." With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, "Memory without passion would be better lost."
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Wounded Elocution
- Crepuscule
- Couplets from Late March
- First Anniversary
- Cheap Weekend in Another Country
- Apparitions in April
- Souvenirs
- Song of the South
- Brink of Spring
- Entrance
- Reversing the Flow
- Origin Myth
- Tutorial
- Hooftaps
- The Fifties from the Back Row
- The Great Depression
- Sepia Mississippi
- Essence and Shadow
- Death Wish
- My Own Personal Jesus
- Missing in the Sunburnt Season
- Press the Button to Hear the Word
- Succession
- At Santa Maria in Cosmedin
- Coming or Going
- Entropy
- At Hadrian’s Villa
- For My Newborn Grandson
- On an Album of Italian Photographs
- Mercury in the Tall Degrees
- Florence in Flames
- Blessing and Hex
- Flaws and August at the Lake
- Vanishings
- Perpetual Afternoon on the Patio
- En Plein Air
- Rented Days in the Poconos
- Hazards and Grace
- Ye Are of More Value than Many Sparrows
- Blade
- Dahlias in Akron
- Getting There
- Ashes and Debris
- Thanksgiving Plus One
- Little Chisel
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Blue Christmas
- Decembering
- Hibernal
- Deep Sleep in Venice
- Open Road Blues
- Rhetoric of Weather
- Northern Discomforts
- Poet in Contention with Himself
- Spring Wind
- Bride of the Adriatic
- Watching the Sun Go Down with Jack Daniel’s
- Jumble of Photographs in a Paper Bag
- Memento
- Tenth Anniversary
- Warming Up the Leftovers
- Circuits Open and Closed
- Ghost Variations
- Acknowledgments