{"product_id":"all-i-feel-is-rivers-9781496220332","title":"All I Feel Is Rivers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll I Feel is Riversis a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took up a deep study of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the religious order that performs the now-famous dervish dance. Vivian's fascination seeped into his writing, and his newly conceived dervish essays reflect the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of the ritual dance with wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling.     Utterly fearless in their passionate avowals of life's many manifestations, these essays showcase the surprising connectivity between the sacred and profane, uncovered by associative drifting. Vivian's essays take on grief and loss, the natural world and climate, spirituality and ecstasy, all while pushing the boundaries of what prose can do.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In quick blocks of text that amount to ecstatic prose poetry or a kind of flash nonfiction, Vivian celebrates the living moment, 'the hum and thrum and love of it.'\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Line by line, image by image, essay by spiraling essay, Vivian awakens us to the grace of the infinite moment: the shaft of morning light, the teaspoon of honey, the spider on the north-facing wall. \u003ci\u003eAll I Feel Is Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e is a wondrous, transcendent book. Let its currents take you.”—Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, author of \u003ci\u003ePresentimiento: A Life in Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is the work of a Sufi master of rapturous prose, who dances until his feet do not touch the ground.”—David Wojahn, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is a wild innocence in Vivian’s headlong rush to get the language right, but don’t be fooled. These are words spoken by a man who has seen the whole spectrum and who chooses—is it even choice?—to be immersed and re-watered again and again, to make each sentence feel like class V rapids through which we readers, boatless but safe, feel transported, not just from one place to another but from one realm to another. These essays are an exhilarating achievement.”—Barbara Hurd, author of \u003ci\u003eListening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The dervish dance spins us, via Vivian, into yes. Yes to the world. Yes to joy. Yeses as homages to what brings us peace: rain, rivers, vodka, Mandelstam. Yes to the letter O. Yes to sorrow too, and oh yes, to ‘this book of flesh turned on its back . . . to gaze up . . . stars wheeling in the wake of so much dark silence.’”—Nance Van Winckel, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Foreigner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e How Precious Still \u003cbr\u003e Even Then\u003cbr\u003e All the Rivers of My Days\u003cbr\u003e Yes\u003cbr\u003e Soul Ink\u003cbr\u003e Water Is My Name\u003cbr\u003e Other Darks\u003cbr\u003e O After O\u003cbr\u003e Bell\u003cbr\u003e To Beg Mercy of a Shadow\u003cbr\u003e I Who Wake Beside You\u003cbr\u003e Ordering a Book of Poems\u003cbr\u003e Dear Syllables\u003cbr\u003e Fish Me\u003cbr\u003e Let a Poem\u003cbr\u003e Plea\u003cbr\u003e Because of What My Brother Told Me\u003cbr\u003e Any Word\u003cbr\u003e Bright Windowsill the Wondering\u003cbr\u003e Another Kind of Waking\u003cbr\u003e Dovelike\u003cbr\u003e Essay Transparent Almost to Midnight\u003cbr\u003e The Woman in Me\u003cbr\u003e Even If\u003cbr\u003e Dithyramb\u003cbr\u003e Essay as the World’s Worst Jeweler\u003cbr\u003e Maybe Fall to My Knees\u003cbr\u003e I Write With the River\u003cbr\u003e How Shall I Owl the Sound\u003cbr\u003e Bring the River\u003cbr\u003e Pen\u003cbr\u003e The Waft-Away World\u003cbr\u003e Light Upon Lightly\u003cbr\u003e A Kind of Inner Russia\u003cbr\u003e Because There Are Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e Come Earthward\u003cbr\u003e Essay by the Black Sea\u003cbr\u003e Gobsmack Essay\u003cbr\u003e Ink of River\u003cbr\u003e Keeper Bees\u003cbr\u003e Letter to Neruda\u003cbr\u003e Mother Forever\u003cbr\u003e Play\u003cbr\u003e Read to You\u003cbr\u003e Somewhere a Siren\u003cbr\u003e Some Kind of Holiness\u003cbr\u003e When Water This Earth\u003cbr\u003e Tell Me Flower\u003cbr\u003e The Most Woke\u003cbr\u003e So Wild Beloved\u003cbr\u003e Gaze of a Child\u003cbr\u003e All I Feel Is Rivers\u003cbr\u003e God-Husks\u003cbr\u003e Becoming Less So","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409230668119,"sku":"9781496220332","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496220332.jpg?v=1730506058","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-i-feel-is-rivers-9781496220332","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}