Full Description
Disquiet is a collection of poems that utilizes natural phenomena—a bright beach, a fallen tree limb, the weight of gravity—to evoke and reflect upon memory and human experience. The poems are structurally innovative, each shaped around a central axis as they trace the speaker's growth from childhood to adulthood. Acute observations resonate throughout the book as its focus shifts from the natural world to the world of the made—the grocery cart or pie-case or microscope—to the world of visual art, and then back. The poems are subtly braided together in a way reminiscent of the invisible bonds that unite snowflakes or cells.
Contents
I. ilk
Kinglet
Fledgling
His Kite
Paper Plane
The Me
Shiba Onko
Sarge
Phantom
Just This Train
Saturn
The Roach
Ornithology
Nest
Touching the Animal
Aubade
The Bumblebee
Mind Over Matter
Snails
Cicadas
Heirloom
Pie Case
Microscope
Wind
II. clay
Floaters
Going the Distance
It So
Then One Morning
Love and Life
Grocery Cart
Riddle
Cesium-137
Frogman
What Began
Seizure
Fireflies
At the War Memorial
Crossword
Oxblood
Gravity
The Will
Who Knew
The Widower
Grief
Pumice
Instead
When You Come to Lethe
III. kiln
Sonata
The Surgeon and the Poet
Scabsong
Apology to My Left Hand
Jesus and the Splinter
Lincoln
Leaving the Museum
After Yoshitoshi
Napoleon's Bath
Saint-Remy Asylum
O
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Ask
Burning the Book
Ginkgo
Vespers
Wrestling the Angel
The Spider
Butterfly
Acknowledgments
About the Author
