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- English
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Scarecrow
About this book
Taking Dante and other catalogers of failure and ruin (Baudelaire, Trakl, Rimbaud) as its guiding lights, Scarecrow charts situations of extremity and madness: "Are you / insistent? Are you dead? / Are you guilty? Has your / name been lifted, a vein / of earth from earth?" It also charts the insistence of time's passing and with it the awakening to both new and foreclosed possibilities. What will remain for us after the disaster? How will we rebuild? To whom will we address ourselves and with what voice? Also a love poem, one of desire and hope, Scarecrow aligns a tragic sensibility with a faith in the other and in the redemptive power of forgiveness. Within the beauty and strangeness of this work rests an imperative that captures the directive of poetry at its best: "Present yourself / in the full radiance of captivation." In its mystery and defiance, Robert Fernandez's collection does precisely this. An online reader's companion will be available at robertfernandezsite.wesleyan.edu.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Scarecrow
- When for a Moment
- It Would Be Better If You Tasted Rain
- We Adorn
- If I Offend You with My Leniency
- The Dauphin
- A Vein of Earth
- After Antonioni’s La Notte
- Pack
- Lost Time
- Sing Again
- Rogue Estates
- Your Loves Travel and Stand
- Bantams
- And
- So Strange Arrangements
- All the Deadly Ones
- The Dog
- The Ground Beneath
- The Leaning
- Flags
- Full Day
- Ad Absurdum
- Bruckner Grew Up among Weevils
- Dayrun
- Those You Live Among
- In Winter with Starred Standards
- The Blood Desires Nakedness of Every Sort
- Crowns
- Then from the Bronze World
- Vincent
- Of Listening and Patient Work
- How Could I Have Clipped So Near
- They Remember My Name
- What Tree Does Give
- We Are Elsewhere
- Who Makes a Chorus of You Here
- Tasso
- Fêtes
- You Are Not Here
- We Challenge
- Where You Hunt, Your Blood Goes Cold
- Softly the Day Stands
- I Want to Die Better
- Which Chatters Beauty
- Every Horned Wayfarer
- Thanatos
- Again
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author