
- 88 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Beauty, glamour, vitality, love—and their fragility or resilience in a chaotic world—animate the poems in The Summer After. Drawn from travels real and imaginary, immersed in landscapes set loose by perpetual motion, these playful yet poignant encounters with aesthetic opulence journey through the exquisite kinesis of becoming, choreographing delicate fluctuations in the permeability between self and other, past and present, growth and decay, nature and art. Tempering ebullience with technique, passion with wit, their shapely stanzas and sinuous cadences uphold as their destination—their utopia, so to speak—a language limber enough to embody, and durable enough to preserve, moments in which sensory intensity gives way to illumination. Light glancing off Murano glass, reflections in a puddle, a tower carved from quartz, and other glittering images constitute the discoveries in this exuberant debut.
The Summer After is the winner of the twenty-fourth New Criterion Poetry Prize.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Murano Figurines
- After Reading about Decreasing Snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains
- The Glass Beach
- Psyche in the Flying Glass Gazebo
- Seafoam
- Reflections: Dallas
- Notes on Aestheticism
- Juggling on a Nude Gay Beach
- Says the Water to the Wave
- Sublunary Lovers
- Wind on Market Street
- Night Drive
- Nocturne
- Frost at Christ Church Meadow
- Lemons
- Flameworking
- Moonflake
- The Summer After
- From the Berkeley Hills
- The Dock
- Cottonwood
- Pahoa Bungalow
- Scuba
- Last Blue Hour at the Office
- Vision at Dry Lagoon State Park
- Song
- Declivities
- Flight Patterns
- Annagrün
- Parthenogenesis
- The Vampire Squid from Hell
- Midnight Finale
- Phoenix Dactylifera
- Afflatus
- Jogging in Spring
- The Quartz Tower
- Night Fog
- Ripples: Lake Merritt