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The Mouths of Grazing Things

by Boyden, Jennifer
The Mouths of Grazing Things

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ISBN13: 9780299235147
ISBN10: 0299235149



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The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature's forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue.

Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature lurks in and out of us still, Boyden translates for a new landscape where a brain in a jar is anchored by an apple, a fly-tying fisherman finds love songs to fish scattered among the barber's sweepings, and the players at "the most dangerous playground in the world" prepare for anything with one fist clenched and the other full of sugar. In poems built to survive an unsafe journey, this book delivers the now-beyond, the almost-was, the near-forgotten, and the just-in-time.

I dedicate this fly to the fish
of the fallen river. It is a poem
of hook and shank and feather.
It sinks like a bone, casts
like the logic of knives.
The song of my own hair, it is
how I call them from their stones.
— excerpt from "The Fly Tier's Monomania

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"In a clear, muscular language loaded with precise revealing metaphor, Jennifer Boyden delivers a world. These are poems of a mature poet deeply engaged with her environment, demonstrating again and again the power of language to surprise and delight in moments of true insight." Sam Hamill

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The poems in this book inhabit a world uneasily familiar and promising, but from the distance of a few possibilities into the future. In this collection of sharp, hallucinatory, and often darkly humorous poems, a lost man wanders among the towns of people who can't remember what they named the children, how to find each other's porches, or whether their buildings are still intact. That's why they need the person with the loupe. Among the poems where doorknobs emit the daily news, stone angels fall from the sky, and the floating world's harvest is whatever swims too close, the person with the loupe steadfastly verifies only what can be measured, while the lost man is witness to the unquantifiable and the limitless. And throughout, precise and observant language leads us expertly into the gorgeous, precarious wilderness of The Declarable Future.

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 Part fairy tale, part gothic ballad, Wait chronicles in poems the year before a young girl’s marriage.

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In a small town under a spell, a child bride prays for the sheriff’s gun. Iron under a bed stops a nightmare. The carousel artist can carve only birds. Part fairy tale and part gothic ballad, Wait spans a single year: the year before a young woman’s marriage. Someone is always watching—from the warehouse, from the woods. And on the outskirts of town, someone new is waiting.


About the Author

Jennifer Boyden, a Minnesota native, lives in Washington State and teaches literature and writing. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Cimarron Review, and the Mid-American Review. Boyden's awards include the PEN Northwest writing residency and a Washington State Artist Trust Grant. This is her first full-length collection.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments    

Wife      

I

Child Bride        

Tennessee        

The Flood        

The Thief        

Neighbor        

Gossip        

Prize-Winning Photograph        

The Accident        

The Interpreter        

Velata        

II

The Bicycle        

Reelection        

The Flies            

All the Animals Are Birds        

Impetus        

Letter after Dismemberment        

Perrault's Tale        

After the Party        

III

Rabbit of the World        

The Land        

The Ripper's Bride        

Salt        

Your Marriage        

The Interpreter Tries to Blend In        

Nothing Happened        

Bug        

Stepmother        

IV

Canary        

The Ladder Tree            

White Asparagus        

Phlox        

Clean        

Love Letter        

The Red Thread        

Real Estate        

Scissors, Hammer, Hoof Pick, Awl        

Hadrian's Wall        

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780299235147
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/01/2010
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Series info:
Brittingham Prize in Poetry
Language:
English
Pages:
80
Height:
.40IN
Width:
5.90IN
Thickness:
.25
LCCN:
2009039720
Number of Units:
1
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Jennifer Boyden
Author:
Alison Stine
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Single Author / American DONTUSE

Winner of the 2011 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Cornelius Eady

Subject:
Single Author / American

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