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9780811214865

Torn Awake Pa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780811214865

  • ISBN10:

    0811214869

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-17
  • Publisher: New Directions

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Summary

In his new collection Torn Awake , Gander continues to blend passion with intelligence, unveiling the forces of physical nature and personhood, the self as a construction of reciprocally reflective relations. Proposing models of hybridity, each of the book's major sequences develops a unique subject, rhythm, and form. Bringing to light the molten potential at the core of personality, the poems illuminate ways that language, as history read by anthropologists, discourse between lovers, gestures between parent and child, graffiti in temples, or even language as an event in itself (the very experience of words at play), incarnates presence. Addressing father and son relationships, and venerating erotic love, Gander's poems surge with vitality: the energy of active discovery.

Table of Contents

FIRST
The Hugeness of That Which Is Missing
3(12)
Love's Letter
15(4)
SECOND
Voiced Stops
19(10)
Love's Letter
29(4)
THIRD
The Gradual All
33(10)
Love's Letter
43(6)
FORTH
Line of Descent
49(16)
Love's Letter
65(4)
FIFTH
Carried Across
69(16)
Love's Letter
85(4)
SIXTH
Facing in All Directions
89(6)
Notes 95

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Chapter One

THE HUGENESS OF THAT WHICH IS MISSING

Contact

Call the direction the eye is looking

the line of sight. There

where it grazes the surface

                  of the visibly surging

without reference to a field of human presence,

don't look away.

I haven't looked away.

The neurons spike quickly. And the catastrophe

will be consummated even to the end, to the absence of ambiguity,

a new range of feeling. Torn awake. What if

a man went into his house and leaned his hand

against the wall and the wall

                          was not?

Look how your relation to truth creates a tension

you have slackened with compromise.

                             Yes, and the more

distant it is, the more I have valued it. But to stand

where the crossing happens, as fall oaks fold

                                            into lake light, and so

wearing reflection, take a further step inside--

                                         No, the voice said, you will strike out

into a forest of pain, unpathed, wolved, clouds muffling the mountain ridge

                                            and spilling down in runnels,

blindness with confusion come to parle, at variance with,

measuring out an exile between self and self. Driven

transverse. Nevertheless you will begin to arrive, to know

                                                       from intimate impulse

the crucial experience of ... the threat of dissolution of ... but not yet.

There is something more

                        than rhythms of distance and presence,

of more quality than the set of qualities determining figure and ground

and suffering, where respite is so often

misinterpreted as a horizon.

Isn't the word for a turn of phrase

itself a turn of phrase?

                    Something was given to me as a present

and a specter was attached to me, pregnant

                                   with equivocation.

And in the throat of language,

and in early June riots of starlings,

and in some crumbs in the seam of a book,

the solid real steps out from infinitely diluted experience

saying, Tongue I gave you. Eyes .

At any point in the trajectory, the body might stop. Do you recall this part?

But who is it that is speaking

in the glorious, unstrung light?

Copyright © 2001 Forrest Gander. All rights reserved.

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