Crocus by Karin Gottshall
WhetherAligned with the mechanismwhereby the spirit is borne aloftthrough song comes againthe question: whether. And not soothedso much as opened by the boysoprano's Sanctus, what movesin the mind as the throat constrictsin sympathy, one note peeledfrom the last, fine as paper slippedfrom a garlic bulb, veined, translucent, is whether-as ifwound through the spiralingamplitude, purpled, fretted, one voice suspendedin concentration of prayer or terrorwills itself above faltering, more perfect since time mustsoon break it. And made it.Whether and by whatever impossiblearrangement of stars, harmonies, correspondences through whichthe music finds the spirit and likea blade slits and releases, circulates the questionthrough the phrase, the delicateengine-as if it matters: the songrises, everything goes with it.The poems in Crocus take as their starting points the interior universes created by myth, art, andmemory, and through the exploration of these terrains create new ways of understanding the ordi-
Multiversal
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Hearsay
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The Hello Delay
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Rotary Devotion
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The Revolver in the Hive
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Door to Door
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Fannie + Freddie
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Cyclorama
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Gray Matter
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A Gray Realm the Ocean
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Well Waiting Room
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The Glazier's Country
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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
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Scenery
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Midden
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Corinna a-Maying the Apocalypse
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Errings
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Xamissa
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A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent
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The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone
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Boats in the Attic
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Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
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My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites
Crocus is not leadenly preoccupied with things; rather, its desire is to open again and again to the world* —Mid-American Review *
British writer Virginia Woolf wrote about the pleasures of having a room of one's own. Here, Vermont poet Karin Gottshall shows us her own sort of private place. * —Tracy Press *
British writer Virginia Woolf wrote about the pleasures of having a room of one's own. Here, Vermont poet Karin Gottshall shows us her own sort of private place. * —Tracy Press *
KARIN GOTTSHALL was recently writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and in many other publications. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823227310 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823227316 |
| Title | Crocus |
| Author | Karin Gottshall |
| Series | Poets Out Loud |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2007-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 78 |
| Prizes | Winner of Poets Out Loud Prize 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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