Airs, Waters, Places : Poems

by Ramke, Bin

• ISBN13: 9780877457763
• ISBN10: 087745776X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this book its title, Airs, Waters, Places looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order. In the poet's words, "To call language a nervous system might be useful: if each sentient being is analogous to cells within the organism, language is analogous to the nerves as well as the messages sent along those nerves. There is, there, if not eternity, at least delusion." This is a book of various appetites in constant motion.

Author Biography

Bin Ramke has published six previous books of poems, including Massacre of the Innocents and Wake The editor of the Denver Quarterly, he teaches creative writing at the University of Denver

Table of Contents

No Thing	1	(1)
After Artemidorus on Dreams: Oneicriticos	2	(3)
Watery	5	(4)
Zoo	9	(7)
Tiny Wounds: A Theory of Generosity	16	(2)
Uses of Reality	18	(2)
Against the Cycle of Saint Ursula (Carpaccio)	20	(8)
Paraclete	28	(1)
Raise Grief to Music	29	(2)
The Gods That Sleep in Museums	31	(2)
Surface Tension	33	(2)
The Science of Reunion and Opposition	35	(5)
Virtual Sculpture	40	(1)
Moths and the Occasional Dog	41	(1)
Echo	42	(8)
Mortal Danger: Funerary Art	50	(3)
On the Shape of Such as Planets, Like Earth	53	(2)
How Various It Is and Quiet	55	(6)
String	61	(2)
Trouble Deaf Heaven	63	(3)
Gravity and Levity	66