Half-Dreaming (eBook)

poems

Douglas Nordfors (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
86 Seiten
Plain View Press, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-63210-071-9 (ISBN)

Infos

';The poems in Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors' beautiful new book, fly like birds around twin flagpolesthe abstract vs. the concrete, the self as stable vs. the self as always in the process of creating itself, what is knowable about the world vs. what is, and always will be, mystery. Ruminative, breathtaking in their associative leaps, these poems see and feel with such burning intensity that they draw us, spellbound, into their fire. Over many years, Nordfors has quietly built a body of work that generously rewards sustained attention.'Steve Bellin-Oka, author of Instructions for Seeing a Ghost';In his latest book of poetry, Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors asks the big questions of what constitutes intimacy, growth and being, and answers them with a fleet-footed blend of philosophy, meditation, politics, personal and relational observations. The book toggles between sections titled ';Abstract' and ';Concrete,' but the dexterous interplay feels almost too rich for a binary characterization. He faces hard truths without flinching, but circles back to the ';pale happiness' he describes in ';Deliberate Ecstasy.' Every poem brings a new revelation, you'll find no artifice or filler here. From a stunning sequence of love poems comes ';A Dream,' where he writes: ';It is not your beauty./ It is not your mind as large/ as the stains of another existence... It is that you are here,/ shedding the hard center of the world.' The ';split tongues' Nordfors writes of sing, taking the reader on a journey that feels hopeful, edifying and earned, as if they too are shedding for a moment the hard center of the world. It is a deft and elegant book, and, for those who seek refuge in poetry, a welcome reprieve from the political noise. A must-read.'Sarah Estes, author of Hive Bone and Field Work

Inhalt

ABSTRACT 9

Children’s Poem 11

Inorganic 13

Detail Study 15

First Love 16

Sonnet 17

The Valley of 18

To a Stranger 19

The Life of the Mind 20

A Dream 21

Modern Romance 22

Pre-Valentine’s Day Poem 23

The Not Me 24

A Question 25

CONCRETE 27

The Foundation 29

The Process 31

Pigeon 32

A Pop Song 33

The Young Man 34

The House Where We Used to Live 35

A Visitor 36

Exterior Interior Monologue 38

A Walk Through Central Park 39

Forgivable 40

Her Garden 41

Where I Live 43

Gone Now 45

ABSTRACT 47

The Days of My Birth 49

Symphony in One Movement 50

Monday Morning Logic 51

Deliberate Ecstasy 52

Self-Portrait 54

Metaphysical Siblings 55

Prime Dream 56

Tabula Rasa 57

In No 58

Each Stage 59

The Collected Poems of Chris Waterson 60

Journal Entry 63

CONCRETE 65

August 4, 2014 67

The Reagan Era 68

October 24, 1929 70

Waiting for a Bank Machine 71

The IRS 72

As I Apply for a Job 73

Self-Help 74

My Weekday Morning Routine 75

Aftereffect 76

Two Months After the Partial Clear-Cutting Across the Road from My House 77

Forecast 78

Poem to a Friend 79

Acknowledgments 81

About the Author 83

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Contemporary poetry • intimacy • Meditation • Philosophy • Politics • Relationship
• ISBN-10: 1-63210-071-1 / 1632100711
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63210-071-9 / 9781632100719