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Eleonore Schönmaier explores three great forests of her life through the lens of experiential environmentalism. Along woodland trails and on the shores of essential bodies of water, she reveals beauty and loss in equal measure in these poems.
Wildlife appears at regular intervals, never when expected. In Schönmaier's boreal forest childhood, she witnesses human and environmental exploitation and lives a life of labour. In a moment of joy, a canoe transforms into a sled. As she moves into adulthood, music creates a pulse to her life and her poems. In a heatwave, two pianists perform Wasserklavier in a botanical garden. A singer works in the Dutch resistance. A Greek composer creates love songs. An organist rides the rear carrier of a bicycle. Turkish composer Fazl Say performs his Black Earth.
Goldfinches, blue-winged teals, waterthrushes, blue herons, and flickers inhabit the pages of Rush of Wingspan. The soundscape of these poems is intimate in scale - about nature, art, animals, cycling - chamber music more than opera. Love is the blue-river thread in the warp and weft of the collection. Schönmaier's focus on planetary and human rights is the red-blood contrast.
Contents
NORTHERN BUSH
Understatements 3
Counting 4
Visible 5
Pretending 6
Overburden 7
Fields 8
Thawing 9
When Southerners Ask About the Animals 10
Lamplight 11
Surfaces 12
Weasels 13
Newspaper Girl 14
Wallet 15
Babysitter 16
Party 17
Into the Garden 18
Traces 19
Reaches 20
Swimming 21
Untouched 22
Candy Striper 24
Rumours 25
Security 27
The Library in the Winter 28
Flight into Puppetry 30
Census Taker 32
Ashes 34
Taiga 36
On the Line 37
Tools 38
Penelope 39
ATLANTIC COASTAL FOREST
Ancestors 43
Keening 44
Straying 45
Sun-Warmed 47
This Painting Not Yet Hung on the Wall 48
Lullaby 49
Naturally 50
Kindness 51
Riverbeds 52
Joining Us in the Water 54
La Main 55
Burning 56
Floats 58
NORTH SEA CITY FOREST
Barn Owls 61
Black Earth 63
Midnight 65
Rhododendron Bush 67
Sunlight 68
The Long Marriage 69
Trains Still Arrive 70
Reunion of Two Lovers 71
Lanterns 72
Much Depends Upon 73
Late 74
WINGS
When Wings Open Doors 77
Windows 79
Chance 80
Wings of Voorlinden 82
When the Salons Are Shuttered 84
Over the Edge 85
The Starving 86
Dawning of Dusk
Morning 87
Afternoon 88
Night 89
GEOMETRIES OF LIGHT
Zoo 93
Star Silt 95
Leiden 97
Blue Light 99
Windowpanes 101
Glint 103
Geometries of Light 104
The Lining 106
Yield 108
Grieving 109
Bowl 110
Clarity 111
NIGHT ALIGNMENTS
Tending 115
Night Alignments 116
Bloom 117
These Are the Objects 118
Secret Code 119
Blackbirds and Greenfinches 121
Inventory 123
History 124
Enter 125
Hesitations 126
Blur 128
At Play 129
Model Collapse 130
What Is Left Is 131
Shape 132
Sculpture 133
ENTANGLEMENTS
Bodies of Work 137
Art Options 139
The Unwritten Book 140
Starstruck 141
Animals 144
SAILOR
When a Friend Lends a Poet Movies 146
When Love Is an Incinerator 147
Great Circle Route 149
All Lit Up 151
While Kissing Onboard 152
Shore Leave
Rain 153
The Bliss of Storm Eccentricities 154
Fleeting 155
Open Gates 156
Acknowledgments 159
Notes 163
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