There Is No Finished World

by Corey, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781893996687
• ISBN10: 1893996689
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: White Pine Pr

Summary

In poems that are relentlessly introspective yet never trivial, Corey delves into human experience at its most potent moments and shows us that the large questions are best considered within the context of the most minute details. When, as an editor and sitting in a hospital keeping a death watch, he addresses a poet whose poem he has rejected because it doesn't rise to the emotional level of the situation, he says, "I'm sure you're thinking this private critique unfair, and you'd be right to be upset, except that you'd be wrong. This place, right here, is where we always meet: Beatrice with her chart devoid of final blessings, you and I searching for the words that nail sensation to the sky.

Table of Contents

Knotter	p. 11
Understand
Forgetting Mortality	p. 15
Employment	p. 16
A String Around Your Finger	p. 18
The Sounds of Those Faithful	p. 20
"Walk-ins Welcome"	p. 21
Trailer on Trailer on Trailer	p. 22
What I Don't Understand	p. 23
What the Road Said	p. 24
What the Eagle Said	p. 25
One Answer	p. 26
Universe	p. 27
Poems of This Size
Poems of This Size	p. 31
Carpe Diem	p. 32
The Boy Scout's Motto Explodes	p. 33
Black Hole	p. 34
20th-Century Skepticism, or, Another Idea Succumbs to Art and Truth	p. 35
Style	p. 36
Know	p. 37
Strengthening the Myth	p. 38
Editing Poems During a Hospital Deathwatch	p. 39
Measures
Measures	p. 43
Living Hands	p. 44
One Night in Lima	p. 48
1998: One Hundred Years Together	p. 49
Who Would Not Seek the Perfect Gesture of Love?	p. 51
Mortal Fathers and Daughters
Anything	p. 55
Death Tricks	p. 57
My Daughter Playing Beethoven on My Chest	p. 58
Notes from the Year of My Father's Dying	p. 60
Apology to My Daughters, 20 and 17	p. 62
Called Forward	p. 64
My Daughters' Photograph as a Bookmark in Howl	p. 65
No Beauty	p. 68
Dirt	p. 70
To My Daughters at My Death	p. 71
Stone as Stone
Abjuring Political Poetry	p. 75
The Drive to Work	p. 76
Seattle Merry-Go-Round	p. 78
Two Views of Charles Burchfield's Six O'Clock: For Adults: Where the Painting Is	p. 80
For Children: The Painting Comes Home	p. 81
The Ghost of the Poet	p. 82
Emily Dickinson Considers Basketball	p. 83
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