What Is Amazing

by Christle, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780819572776
• ISBN10: 0819572772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-14
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and readers, reasoning their way to unreasonable conclusions. These poems try to understand how it is that we come to recognize and differentiate objects and beings, how wholly each is attached to its name, and which space reveals them. What Is Amazing delights in fully inhabiting its varied forms and voices, singing worlds that often coincide with our own.

Table of Contents

The Seaside!

Self-Portrait with Fire

Teamwork Should Come from the Soul 3

If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology

People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef

Moss Does Not Love Other Moss

No Light and No Hands

An Activity

How Like an Island

More of Form Is More of Content

It Is Like Surgery But It Is Not Surgery

Talk Radio

Taxonomy of That November

Way out in the Country

I'll Be Me and You Be Goethe

More Swans and More Women

Such a Lovely Garden

Wallpaper Everywhere Even the Ceiling

We Are Not Getting Anywhere

The Small Husband

Bash

Saturday

It Feels Like It Is on Purpose

Up Again with the Night

The Angry Faun

In Accordance

The Spider

Difficulties

I Am Coming Over

A Very Remarkable Story

And Then We Clap Ourselves Together

What Is Amazing

What Will Grow Here

Happy and Glorious

Parking Lot

Go and Play Outside

Some Combinations

I will Know You by Your Red Carnation

Ladies a Basket

Last Time I Wore This Sweater

For Henri

To Do

Infinitives

Route 109

Classic Hook Shape

Under the Moon the Knocking

Directly at the Sun

A Long Life

Basic All Things Bright and Beautiful

Acknowledgments

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