The audible and the evident Poems
Book - 2020
"In this, Julie Hanson's second award-winning book, the poems inscribe deep stillness on a world of harmonies in motion. Whether composed on modern objects, say a vacuum-"part pet, part sculpture/sprawled awkwardly, still shrieking"-that evokes a sudden onrush of sobbing, or the notional movement between a plastic bag, a lawn and a return from a France not yet visited, these poems circulate among the senses as moments that pass and are recalled. Hanson's poems investigate interiority as they resonate in the ear to excite the eye. Together, her poems illustrate the movement between and among seasons and tasks, work and leisure, solitude and people, and all through the private life as it intersects with the products a...nd noises of industry and nature. Hanson's is a poetic realm that includes the head-splitting bright white screamings of an Indy 500 race into a zen garden, this realm we all inhabit where birdsong and squeaky water meters improvise together"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
-
Athens :
Ohio University Press
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- viii, 88 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780821424155
- I.
- Real Life, Dear Voyeur, Real Life
- Mushroom on the Lawn
- Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?
- They Are Widening the Road
- Buttons
- My Job as a Child
- Improvisation or The Bluebird of Happiness
- Deleted Poem
- A Tan Dog Standing
- Why Do Men Spit?
- The Applicant's Wife's Rendering of the Facility Tour
- Method
- Squall Line Stalling in a Memory of Rain
- Rundown Ride
- Eclipse on the Day of the Field Trip
- An Errand
- At Pauline's
- II.
- Law
- It is unconquerable; it has
- Summer Shower
- Toggle
- Re-entry
- Advent
- Dialectic and Infusion
- 27 October. Dreary.
- Passage Through
- The Meeting
- Away
- The Clacklet
- The Prints from Vacation Are Back
- Daylight
- Final Moments, Summer School
- Swissed
- Trail
- III.
- Accord
- The Vacuum
- A Mile In
- McCall's 8041
- In the Garden of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
- Of
- Early Cinematography
- But All Energy Does Go Somewhere
- Indoor Tundra
- In Which I Am Taken for a Ride
- My Lifelong Relationship with God
- My Neighbor's Maple
- Monday
- Now
- Ocean
- Notes
- Acknowledgments