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A diverse display of formal dexterity, narrative power, and lyrical resonance, Peter Filkins's latest collection of poems explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and the human.
Exploring the space between nature and culture, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy, they move with ease from narrative to meditation, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life's mystery and the soul's repose amid "talismans at twilight, the whir of birds."
Contents
Part I
In Vivo
Uterine Vellum
Augustine's Vision
Auden's Glasses
The Hitler Bug
Triptych
Blood Moon Blues
Facial Recognition
Nobody's Road
To the Coming Disaster
Part II
Aubade
Little Problem
Ashore
Willow
Rain
Solstice
Nadir
Narcissi
Credo
Nocturne
Part III
Water Lilies
Landscape
Sun Through Snow
Soundboard
Happy Trails
The Wild Boar
Late Elegy for Seamus Heaney
Annaghmakerrig
Epiphany
Poem
Part IV
Crows
Augury
False Cardinal
Forecast
Cockles
Arrowhead
The Toad
The Bass
Oracle
Starlings
For the Birds
Turtle
Part V
Writings
Moonlight
Boldini's Catch
Shell
At Anchor
O
The Hours
A Soft Day
Making Hay
Day In, Day Out
Envoy
Notes on the Poems
Acknowledgments
