They Are Sleeping: Poems

by Klink, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780820322759
• ISBN10: 082032275X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

InThey Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on "self" is loosened and blurred--caves, coastlines, rooms in cities. As her poems lead us through these sometimes beautiful, sometimes appalling internal landscapes, characters like the Hanged Man and the Lady of Situations reappear, often locked in misunderstanding but compelling us toward a more fragile and expansive sense of self.

Author Biography

Joanna Klink teaches at the University of Montana at Missoula. Her poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Verse, and Prairie Schooner.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Creatio Ex Nihilo	1	(4)
Terre a Terre	5	(1)
Adam Sleeping	6	(2)
The Lady of Situations	8	(2)
The Ocean Room	10	(1)
The Book of Black Hills	11	(4)
Scrutiny	15	(2)
Vegas	17	(1)
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes	18	(4)
Spare	22	(1)
Monde, Demimonde	23	(8)
Steps out from the metallic shadows	24	(1)
And O they are beautiful	25	(1)
He feels tiny bones	26	(1)
Le Pendu is delighted, prepared	27	(1)
Perhaps la Papesse. Terracotta	28	(1)
Pendu stirs, raises a voice	29	(1)
I could not accept	30	(1)
From the Wicked Tarot Pack	31	(4)
Generation	35	(4)
Aubade	39	(1)
Aubade	40	(1)
Aubade	41	(1)
Aubade	42	(1)
Aubade	43	(1)
Aubade	44	(2)
Aubade	46	(1)
This Particular Eden	47	(2)
Landscape Without Particulars	49	(5)
All terror to the ones who live alone	49	(1)
Whether I wait for the arrangement	50	(1)
Five bicycles toward the sea	51	(1)
Overcast, issuing into fluorescence	52	(1)
In the rooms a wind is easing	53	(1)
Plein-Air	54	(2)
Summer Elegy	56	(1)
Occam's Razor	57	(2)
Rue De Paris, Temps De Pluie	59	(4)
Darker City (Solea)	63	(5)
Sleep in your head because the thought	63	(1)
It appears as damask, shadow dragging sky	64	(1)
And what has come to take its place	65	(1)
Quarrel, I said	66	(1)
I saw you once, white	67	(1)
The High Rooms	68	(5)
Notes	73