Circadian

by Klink, Joanna (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143038849
• ISBN10: 0143038842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-31
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink’s passionate new collection Circadiantake as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and wintry prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.

Author Biography

Joanna Klink teaches poetry at the University of Montana. She is the author of one previous collection, They Are Sleeping, and her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and other journals. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers-' Award in 2003.

Table of Contents

Auroras	p. 1
Day Window	p. 3
River in Dusk	p. 4
Apology	p. 5
Draftsmanship	p. 6
Sea Levels	p. 9
Grassfield	p. 10
Antelope	p. 11
And Having Lost Track	p. 12
Porch in Snow	p. 14
Vireo	p. 15
Blue Ice	p. 16
Raven	p. 18
Sea by Dusk	p. 23
Mariana Trench	p. 25
Shooting Star	p. 26
Peripheries	p. 27
Fisherman
Flicker
Sea Ice
Prism
Farm Soil
Beehive
Winter Field	p. 33
Thoughts on Fog	p. 34
The Eventides	p. 37
You find yourself in complaint
Who knows what you are
You are dayborn
Sea by Flowers	p. 40
Four Messages	p. 43
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy	p. 46
Terrarium	p. 48
Should I call it mechanical
Forgetting the northern sun
And when I asked
Northern	p. 51
Whoever Like You and All Doves	p. 53
Studies for an Estuary	p. 60
The study is always lost
Perhaps there are two seas
Why are things as they are
Hourglass	p. 63
Notes	p. 66
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