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Ascension Theory : poems / by Christopher Bolin

Author
Bolin, Christopher
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (72 pages).
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Contents
Equation for Cresting -- Updraft -- And Swung Them -- Annapolis -- Snow Bridge -- The Tally -- Footfalls -- Snow Falling on Scales -- Remnants of Ice-shelves -- The Swiftly Emptying Air -- Capital -- Remnants of a Still-life -- Blizzard -- Salvage-weather -- Rising -- Ascension Theory -- Natural Histories -- The Tiers of Plains -- Stained Glass -- Signal -- Latitude -- Icelandic Summer -- Interior -- Instrument -- As Makers of Sound -- Firebreak -- The Continuation of Earth through Light -- Squall -- Winter Range -- Economy -- Landscape -- Rite of Spring -- Supplemental Oxygen -- Regents -- Arctic Snow -- Antigua -- Attending -- New Year -- The Iron Range -- Estate -- Procedure -- Sentinel -- Empire -- Self-arrest -- Moss in the Shape of Boards -- Revolution -- Enlightenment -- Anniversary -- Cartographer's Mood -- Observances upon Returning -- View -- Say Feast -- Brittle Latch -- Lather -- Northern Plains -- Anonymity -- Broadcast -- Pacific Rim -- Another Last Transmission -- Allowances -- Elegy -- Census.
Summary
"This meditation," writes the poet, "is about appearing without motes between us: / it is practice for presenting oneself to God." This debut collection records a deeply moving attempt to restore poetry to the possibilities of redemptive action. The physical and emotional landscapes of these poems, rendered with clear-eyed precision, are beyond the reaches of protection and consolation: tundra, frozen sea, barren woodlands, skies littered with satellite trash, fields marked by abandoned, makeshift shrines, sick rooms, vacant reaches that provide "nodes / in every direction // for sensing // the second coming."
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9781609382056 (electronic bk.)
1609382056 (electronic bk.)
9781609381950
1609381955
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