Description
Book SynopsisAs the Den Burns is a debut collection that renders a sublime world on the verge of vanishing. Elegiac and surreal, primal and lyrical, these unpredictable poems vault from Tallahassee vigils to flooded gardens after a hurricane’s landfall. Reading this collection is like swimming into the ocean; you float weightless amid waves of resistance, then knots form in your gut because something unseen moves beneath you. Mythology and song collide in this stunning collection as unruly poems waver from lifeguard chairs and cathedrals to lamps in underwater caverns. Rapier’s poetry could be spray painted beneath a beach pier; every stanza shifts rapidly without apology, the shape of the words like a signature.
Table of Contents
- Landscape Umbilical
- I.One Thousand Tongues
- Millennia of Heck
- Fathermark
- Radio Pop
- Chiaroscuro
- Burial
- Disturbed Mud
- Rowing Out of a Riptide
- Detention
- After Matthew
- Lackawanna Crib
- Atlantic Baptism
- The Book of Ruth
- Neptune Beach
- From Jupiter
- Curse
- II.Nightwatch
- Vision of the Cliff Divers
- Appaloosa Rider Unchained
- Everything Here
- Fatherbeast
- Beneath the Lemon Tree
- Yawping Gargoyles
- Godchild
- III.To a Spotted Horse in Middleburg
- Firewheel
- Muddy Offshoots
- Levitate
- Experience Meat
- Woozy
- All-Nighter and Vision of Ajax
- The Chiasmus Chimera
- Atlantic Beach Shallows
- Shade
- Primordial Soup
- The Neanderthal Tongue
- Guillotine
- How to Create a Boy Out of Thunder
- Beyond the Garden
- As the Den Burns
