Open field, understory : new and selected poems / by James Seay.
1997
PS3569.E24 O64 1997
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Title
Open field, understory : new and selected poems / by James Seay.
Author
ISBN
0807121290 (alk. paper)
9780807121290 (alk. paper)
0807121304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807121306 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807121290 (alk. paper)
0807121304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807121306 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Description
182 p. ; 24 cm.
Exhibited
1998 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS3569.E24 O64 1997
Summary
This superb collection of new and older work shows James Seay's sure progress from the reflection of first influences to the strongly individual voice of his later pieces. As always, Seay evokes a profound sense of history and place - the landscape, colors, scents, and musical vocal cadences of his native South and the world at large. Yet, though the compulsion to "tell stories, when the truth won't work" may be our downfall, Seay shows us that stories are also prisms refracting each seemingly simple moment into infinite complexity. The stories in these beautifully wrought poems offer us swift glimpses of grace - when the fragmentary individual memory flares, is transformed, and becomes the story we have all been waiting for, the one that "frees the body from the fact of itself."
Formatted Contents Note
The Fire of Both the Old Year and the New
Nothing He Had Ever Thought or Done
Marigot, F.W.I.
Hunger
Where Cerritos Is
Gift List
Flags
Cisternal Anecdote
Tidal Rivers
Bridges
Little Ones, Scattered
Two Poems Found in Old Programs: We Are Stardust
Two Poems Found in Old Programs: Flat-Out, in 5/4 Time
The Puritan
Where Books Fall Open
Two Poems on Declension: Won't You Be Mine, Columbine?
Two Poems on Declension: The Reaching Back with Both Hands
In Residence
On the Steps to Roquebrune
When Once Friends
Tiffany & Co.
Faith as an Arm of Culture, Culture as an Arm of Narration
Time Open-Faced Yet Secret Before Us
Clouds over Islands
Where Our Voices Broke Off
What Words For
Inside, Outside, the Dialectics Once More
Audubon Drive, Memphis
Not Something in a Magazine
Cheese
Easter Sunrise, the Constant Moon We Settled For
The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book
Cottonmouth, Angus, Redwing.
Nothing He Had Ever Thought or Done
Marigot, F.W.I.
Hunger
Where Cerritos Is
Gift List
Flags
Cisternal Anecdote
Tidal Rivers
Bridges
Little Ones, Scattered
Two Poems Found in Old Programs: We Are Stardust
Two Poems Found in Old Programs: Flat-Out, in 5/4 Time
The Puritan
Where Books Fall Open
Two Poems on Declension: Won't You Be Mine, Columbine?
Two Poems on Declension: The Reaching Back with Both Hands
In Residence
On the Steps to Roquebrune
When Once Friends
Tiffany & Co.
Faith as an Arm of Culture, Culture as an Arm of Narration
Time Open-Faced Yet Secret Before Us
Clouds over Islands
Where Our Voices Broke Off
What Words For
Inside, Outside, the Dialectics Once More
Audubon Drive, Memphis
Not Something in a Magazine
Cheese
Easter Sunrise, the Constant Moon We Settled For
The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book
Cottonmouth, Angus, Redwing.
Series
[Southern messenger poets]
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