Description
Book SynopsisAccomplishes what has proven to be so difficult for poets across time: a deeply satisfying balance of the spiritual and political. This book focuses on both singular and communal: the self on its journey through the world and our responsibilities as a people for the precarious state of that world.
Trade Review"No Starling touches upon spiritual and political issues alike, signing aloud in a crystal clear voices that deserves to be heard."
* Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsI / Doorman
Slate
Waking, Working
Mister
We Called Goodgye, but She Was Already Gone
Agape
Black Stitches, Black Knots
Doorman
The New Boys Will Never Love You
In the New Boy's In-Basket
All Asides Aside
White Marginalia
Errata
RE: The Two New Boys
The Rattled Hymn of the Republic
II / Middle, Nowhere
Before There Was a Road (On the Way to Wilburville)
Middle, Nowhere
Seme and Semaphore
I Am on a Break
Retrograde: Echoes from Earlier Chapters
Passing Through the Shadows of Great Buildings
The Usual
When the Van Broke Down
III /Threshold
Reentry
White Brides, White Mistresses
Almost an End of Absinthe
Verlaine in Prison
Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935)
At Some Point the River Always Veers Away from the Road
The Winter Cow
Eurydice
Our Ladies of Elsewhere
You People
IV / We Fall in Behind
We Fall in Behind
Fuck It
Notes
Upriver: Distinctions of Never and Ever
The Ones You Love Are Cold
Let Me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath
I Talk to the Bread, I Chat with the Dough
Breaking Only Little Laws
Indiscriminate Kisses
Leastways
Adieu
Hand-Embroidered Mourning Piece for Clara Elisabeth Kriebel, 1779
Bid Me Be the Bird
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
