Not Even Then

by Blanchfield, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780520240391
• ISBN10: 0520240391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A smart and unexpected first book of poetry. Not Even Then, distinctive for its suspensive, kinked, and breath-held language and its poetics of possibility, amounts to a sinuous investigation into the nature of likeness.

Table of Contents

One First Try and Then Another	3	(4)
WEREMEN
Thirteen Point Three Three	7	(2)
Letter to a Silvery Mime in Yellow	9	(2)
Ferdinand, the Prize	11	(2)
Red Habits	13	(1)
The Weremen	14	(3)
Two Moons	17	(1)
Borrowing a Page from Nature	18	(2)
Refinery	20	(1)
If the Blank Outcome in Dominoes Adds a Seventh Side to Dice	21	(1)
The Next Landing	22	(1)
Chercher	23	(3)
From the Selected Burned Letters	26	(5)
ISLAND EQUIDISTANT
The Same Question	31	(2)
Propeller or Chime	33	(1)
Code Orange under Love, Part I	34	(2)
24-Hour Window	36	(2)
Infraction	38	(1)
The Endowment Becoming Less an Institution	39	(1)
Not of the Heritage Softtail Series	40	(2)
Blanch Whiteface to Face	42	(2)
Comeuppance Has Hatches	44	(2)
Pipe Dream of a Deputy Best Friend	46	(2)
Newfoundland and Labrador	48	(1)
To Come True a Thing Must Come Second	49	(1)
Answer Day	50	(1)
Comfort Proviso with Shadow	51	(1)
Chances at Kill Devil Hills	52	(5)
KILL DEVIL HILLS
The Earliest Work of Literary Criticism	57	(2)
There Are Five Deacons	59	(2)
String Theory Readymade	61	(1)
Receipt	62	(1)
A Whole Host	63	(2)
Littleness of Being	65	(1)
Even Funnier than Pretending to Do It Is Actually Doing It	66	(2)
Velma	68	(2)
The Matter, with Abjection	70	(1)
Less and Less That Is Not a Hotel Anymore	71	(1)
Aerozons Water Letter	72	(1)
Photograph of without Reference To	73	(1)
The Discoverer of Pluto	74	(3)
The Living Many Go Down One	77	(2)
Some Notes	79	(2)
Acknowledgments	81