The Surface of Last Scattering: Poems (The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Jacobik, Gray

9781881515203: The Surface of Last Scattering: Poems (The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize)

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ISBN 10: 1881515206 ISBN 13: 9781881515203

Verlag: Texas Review Press, 1999

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In the opening poem of The Surface of last Scattering, the poet asks "How shape a full-bodied intelligent speaking for an open-hearted listening?" In pursuit of the possibilities engendered by this question, Gray Jacobik writes meditative lyrics, essay-poems and prose-poems as grounded in the mind as in the body, poems that assume, and reward, an open-hearted listening. Ascribing to no one school of poetics, and no one style, Jacobik is unafraid of either spare language or a language of high color. She uses a range of resources from verisimilitude to abstraction to write poems that are at once instruments of knowing and passionate songs.

Emily
I spent my birthday with a woman who might
have been myself, thirty years ago, myself
without the early tragedies. Her thirst for
experience, her talent for using it, I know as clearly
as, after a long day, I know the small of my back.
Her sweetness is the sweetness that once held me.

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GRAY JACOBIK, winner of the 1997 Juniper Prize for her book of poems The Double Task (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) has published three other collections of poetry: Sandpainting (1980), Paradise Poems (1978), and Jane's Song (1976). An NEA fellow, her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ontario Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Midwest Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, and Georgia Review, among others, and her poems have been in a number of leading anthologies, such as The Best American Poetry, 1997 and Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.

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