The king's touch Poems
Book - 2022
"Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue."--
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- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 116 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781644450772
- I.
- Youth
- In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen
- "Refugee"
- Not-Her
- Bernini's David as a Young Man with a Slingstone and an Electronics Repair Shop
- Confession
- Up the Hill
- Reading
- A Dictator Walks into a Bar
- Fly
- II.
- Dream of a Song Woven from the Veil
- Dead Me, Live Me
- Migration
- False Teeth
- Black Dog, White Dog
- Words from Chernobyl
- After a Sentence in a Letter from Pasternak to Rilke, 1926
- Practice Range
- Homage to Vallejo's "Hymn to the Volunteers of the Republic"
- Another Disgrace
- Twilight in the Future
- Dream Dreamed a Millennium Too Late
- What I Can Say in 2021 about a Famine in 2011
- Clearance
- Last Cigarette
- Apology to My Daughter
- III.
- Breaker
- Ostrich
- At Yeats's Tower
- Queen for a Day
- Stethoscope
- The Unified Field
- A Toast to Pavlov's Dogs
- The Judgment after the Last
- Mission
- Sunday Is Never the Last Day of the Week
- Last Rites
- The Hunger Artist as a Senior Citizen
- A Man Plays Debussy for a Blind, Eighty-Four-Year-Old Female Elephant
- My Mother as the Eyes of a Whale on Her Ninety-Second Birthday
- Conversation
- For My Mother's Ninety-Sixth Birthday
- IV.
- The King's Touch
- Little Testament
- The King's Evil
- Age of Wonder
- Notes
- Acknowledgments