The Quick
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-98515-2 (ISBN)
The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's large-spirited and exhilarating poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son, the book turns and turns its kaleidoscopic lens, settling now on origins and creation myths, now on Greek or Welsh gods, now on a painting by Vermeer or on an article from the daily news, all slipping together to illuminate our coming to consciousness, our coming to "be."
The poems ask how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns. An inquiry of this depth cannot fail to encounter grief, but it is a grief tempered and transcended by the acceptance of ongoing life, as well as a consistently outward-focused eye and a passion for language. Sparked by Roberts's sharp imagery and daring cadences, this is a fresh and savvy collection, informed by science, myth, music, philosophy, and etymology, all braided within a sinuous narrative line that runs from sorrow to rich celebration.
Katrina Roberts is associate professor of English/creative writing and Garrett Fellow in the Humanities at Whitman College. She is the author of How Late Desire Looks, which won the Peregrine Smith Prize in poetry. She lives with her husband and two sons in Walla Walla, Washington.
I
Estuary
Self-Portrait as Flint, Dust, an Egg-Blue Truck, Memory of Arson & Signs
On Wanting a Child
Sfumato
Bright Cell
Scintilla
Dizzy with the Glow of What Might Dehisce
Dryope to Amphissos
Diplopia
Woman Holding a Balance
Auralia
Coda
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
Missive
Furculae
One or Two Things Sacred to Sorrow
II
Marina
Captive of the Mineral World
Residuum
University
Peepwillow
Cynosure
Signs of Life
Anima
Plumed Wings, Apposing Thumbs & Other Household Mutations
Midwinter
Saturnism
Omphalocele
Anamnesis
Bird of Consequence
Occurrence
News
Ceridwen to Taliesin
III
Cantata
Prelude
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
Postlude: Madrigal
IV
Bread
Firstborn
Birthday
Grace Absentia
Partita
Thieves
Patia
Grasp
Integer
Io to Zeus
Canticle
Hypothetica
The Will: Mary Catherine Speaks Dockside
Clepsydra
Vision
Appoggiatura
Foxfire
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.11.2005 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Pacific Northwest Poetry Series |
| Verlagsort | Seattle |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-295-98515-1 / 0295985151 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-98515-2 / 9780295985152 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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