Between the Twilight and the Sky. Jennie Neighbors

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Название Between the Twilight and the Sky
Автор произведения Jennie Neighbors
Жанр Языкознание
Серия Free Verse Editions
Издательство Языкознание
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isbn 9781602356702



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      Free Verse Editions

      Edited by Jon Thompson

      2008

      Quarry by Carolyn Guinzio

      Between the Twilight and the Sky by Jennie Neighbors

      The Prison Poems by Miguel Hernández,

      translated by Michael Smith

      remanence by Boyer Rickel

      What Stillness Illuminated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

      2007

      Child in the Road by Cindy Savett

      Verge by Morgan Lucas Schuldt

      The Flying House by Dawn-Michelle Baude

      2006

      Physis by Nicolas Pesque, translated by Cole Swensen

      Puppet Wardrobe by Daniel Tiffany

      These Beautiful Limits by Thomas Lisk

      The Wash by Adam Clay

      2005

      A Map of Faring by Peter Riley

      Signs Following by Ger Killeen

      Winter Journey [Viaggio d’inverno] by Attilio Bertolucci,

      translated by Nicholas Benson

      Between the Twilight and the Sky

      Jennie Neighbors

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906

      © 2008 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Neighbors, Jennie.

       Between the twilight and the sky / Jennie Neighbors.

       p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

       ISBN 978-1-60235-087-8 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-088-5 (adobe ebook)

       I. Title.

       PS3614.E4425B48 2008

       811’.6--dc22

       2008041922

      Epigraph: “De moment en moment” by René Char in Le Bâton de rosier. Editions Gallimard, Paris. Used by permission of Marie-Claude Char.

      Author photograph by Jim Neighbors. Used by permission.

      Cover photograph “Signor Farini—Rope Ascension” © 1859, Filing #D417685, Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection. Used by permission.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

      Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paper and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com or through online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, or e-mail [email protected].

      for Jim and Esten

      Contents

       Canto I: By Virtue of Stubborn Life

       Three Towns and an Abstract Universal

       Of Its Own Accord

       The Problem of Freedom

       The Problem of Freedom

       The Problem of Freedom

       Song of Secret Hymns

       As the Present Writing Speaks

       Untitled

       Of Its Own Accord

       The Fool

       The Bookcase: A Prelude

       The Vinculum

       Song of Secret Hymns

       Thought

       Videndo Legant

       A Lesson From Bach

       Bone, Top, Ball

       Cor Tuum Archa

       Opens the Horizon

       To the Night of the World

       The Shore

       Pictures of the Sea

       Gran Chemin

       The Act

       A Life

       Canto II: Between Death and Beauty

       The Capacity for Power

       The Capacity for Power

       The Capacity for Power

       Precisely In its Failure, Language Succeeds

       Capacity

       Capacity

       Trembling