Horizon Note

by Behn, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780299175306
• ISBN10: 0299175308
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

A son is born too early, as if coming up over the horizon before his own dawn. An elderly father lingers at life's other horizon. In language dense & clear, playful & somber, & with a formal exactitude & emotional amplitude suggestive of her own musical training, Behn traverses these horizons with a musician's as well as a poet's ear.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Prelude for Penny Whistle	3	(28)
Still Life	7	(2)
On Being Asked My Opinion About an Autopsy	9	(2)
A Brief History of Music	11	(3)
Early Instance	14	(1)
Vigil: Dwindle	15	(2)
The Other Side	17	(2)
Double Elegy in Spring	19	(3)
The Swim	22	(2)
The Composer	24	(1)
The Call	25	(6)
Interlude: February	31	(38)
Opal	35	(3)
On Giving My Father a Book About Roses	38	(3)
Wolf Story	41	(4)
The Seventh Day	45	(2)
Sylvia's Starlings	47	(2)
Ark	49	(1)
The Primary Tool Is Soup	50	(4)
Moment of Brain	54	(2)
Elegy for the Difference Between Reading and Being	56	(2)
The Scientist	58	(3)
Elegy for Lessons	61	(3)
Patton Lake	64	(5)
Interlude: Still Still	69	(26)
Ballad in Fall	75	(2)
Whether or Not There Are Apples	77	(1)
On Thursday She Began Saying Everything at Once	78	(2)
Slide	80	(2)
Her Job	82	(2)
Ancient New Parents	84	(2)
To Brain on Brain's Last Day as Brain	86	(2)
On Being Asked About Giving Up the Flute	88	(3)
The Difference Between Writing and Music	91	(4)
Postlude for Penny Whistle, Spoons, and Drum	95	(6)
Notes	101