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- Book Title
- Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising)
- Publication Name
- The Body Distances
- Title
- The Body Distances
- Subtitle
- (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781625342201
- ISBN
- 9781625342201
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Genre
- Poetry, Fiction
- Release Date
- 30/03/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 10in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Item Width
- 7in
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Let no lip, shoulder, hip, go untasted tonight. Let no one be unscathed. And as you close the door & fold yourself in sleep against another look for a moment at the empty stretch of dark between heaven & earth: someone is missing from the world . . . The Body Distances is filled with long, limber, nimble poems at once ecstatic and elegiac. These poems are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which "the unlikely continues / to dovetail with the present."
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
ISBN-10
1625342209
ISBN-13
9781625342201
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219266788
Product Key Features
Book Title
Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3623.A3523a6 2016
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College Graduate Student
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"Mark Wagenaar's poems are brimful of the world--generous, fluid, packed with an avid music, with praise and astonishment. In poem after poem, Wagenaar renders a sense of 'a still life with everything in the world,' not in an attempt to freeze-frame the moment but in order to register everything in the moment, in all its registers, as the moment passes. Therefore, The Body Distances is both ecstatic and elegiac. These are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which 'the unlikely continues/ to dovetail with the present.'--James Haug, Juniper Prize for Poetry co-judge and author of The Stolen Car "As with those poets who seem to be his touchstones--Larry Levis, Charles Wright, and Albert Goldbarth come to mind--Mark Wagenaar's poems are capacious, restless narratives and lyrics that are both emotionally nuanced and remarkably fluent in their ability to juggle allusions that range from Dante to Donald Trump, from Madame Curie to Lex Luthor. Yet the erudition of his poems always arises from urgency rather than from the desire for an easy tour de force. As the title of his collection suggests, Wagenaar's poems are suffused with an acute sense of our mortality, but they are also, in their ambition and relentlessness, oddly celebratory. The Body Distances is a book to savor and return to."--David Wojahn, author of World Tree "Charting how our bodies break and bridge toward spirit, Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances traces what our flesh endures from sleeping pills, garbage dumps, coal dust, whiskey, and muons, yet manages to find mercy in a Whitmanesque power to marvel at a mutilated world. This is an 'all too human' book by a marvelous poet right when we need it the most."--Mark Irwin, author of American Urn: Selected Poems "Gustav Mahler, whose four-part, unfinished tenth symphony provides thematic armature for Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances , once admonished 'die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt. Sie muss alles unfassen' ('the symphony must be a world. It must embrace everything'). Wagenaar possesses a prodigious, sonic, ekphrastic, symphonic imagination equal to Mahler's manifesto (Mahler also said that 'If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music'). It feels that all of life is offered here, in a stirring range of tonal and formal registers--from Adele to de Chirico, Donald Trump's Hair to the Cloud of Unknowing, Mid-western pick-up truck meth labs to Pagliacci, elegiac sonnets to polka troubadours, baseball stats to the ecstatic ledger of the Book of Little Miracles. To shout-out to a clear ancestor of this book, Walt Whitman: Mark Wagenaar is a kosmos, and his book--replete with 'everything in the World'--stitches a host of luminous, grace-buttressed bridges among their, among our, distances."--Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Vanitas, Rough "Long lines and graceful, extended syntax that are on the far side of what is sometimes inadequately called poetic prose; big, inspired leaps from one end of the metaphor to the other; a style rather beyond the merely elliptical yet never falling into the discretely discontinuous; a meaning-making imagination that vibrates with semantic energy; and a young mind that nevertheless deserves the adjective, 'learned.' These are only a few of the attractions of the brilliant Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising) , a book of poems displaying such originality and mastery that it will, I suspect, be discussed and imitated in MFA workshops and advanced poetry classes throughout the country, probably preceded by the instructor's remark, 'This, folks, is how it's done.'"--B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher: Poems, "Mark Wagenaar's poems are brimful of the world--generous, fluid, packed with an avid music, with praise and astonishment. In poem after poem, Wagenaar renders a sense of 'a still life with everything in the world,' not in an attempt to freeze-frame the moment but in order to register everything in the moment, in all its registers, as the moment passes. Therefore, The Body Distances is both ecstatic and elegiac. These are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which 'the unlikely continues/ to dovetail with the present.'"--James Haug, Juniper Prize for Poetry co-judge and author of The Stolen Car "As with those poets who seem to be his touchstones--Larry Levis, Charles Wright, and Albert Goldbarth come to mind--Mark Wagenaar's poems are capacious, restless narratives and lyrics that are both emotionally nuanced and remarkably fluent in their ability to juggle allusions that range from Dante to Donald Trump, from Madame Curie to Lex Luthor. Yet the erudition of his poems always arises from urgency rather than from the desire for an easy tour de force. As the title of his collection suggests, Wagenaar's poems are suffused with an acute sense of our mortality, but they are also, in their ambition and relentlessness, oddly celebratory. The Body Distances is a book to savor and return to."--David Wojahn, author of World Tree "Charting how our bodies break and bridge toward spirit, Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances traces what our flesh endures from sleeping pills, garbage dumps, coal dust, whiskey, and muons, yet manages to find mercy in a Whitmanesque power to marvel at a mutilated world. This is an 'all too human' book by a marvelous poet right when we need it the most."--Mark Irwin, author of American Urn: Selected Poems "Gustav Mahler, whose four-part, unfinished tenth symphony provides thematic armature for Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances, once admonished 'die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt. Sie muss alles unfassen' ('the symphony must be a world. It must embrace everything'). Wagenaar possesses a prodigious, sonic, ekphrastic, symphonic imagination equal to Mahler's manifesto (Mahler also said that 'If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music'). It feels that all of life is offered here, in a stirring range of tonal and formal registers--from Adele to de Chirico, Donald Trump's Hair to the Cloud of Unknowing, Mid-western pick-up truck meth labs to Pagliacci, elegiac sonnets to polka troubadours, baseball stats to the ecstatic ledger of the Book of Little Miracles. To shout-out to a clear ancestor of this book, Walt Whitman: Mark Wagenaar is a kosmos, and his book--replete with 'everything in the World'--stitches a host of luminous, grace-buttressed bridges among their, among our, distances."--Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Vanitas, Rough "Long lines and graceful, extended syntax that are on the far side of what is sometimes inadequately called poetic prose; big, inspired leaps from one end of the metaphor to the other; a style rather beyond the merely elliptical yet never falling into the discretely discontinuous; a meaning-making imagination that vibrates with semantic energy; and a young mind that nevertheless deserves the adjective, 'learned.' These are only a few of the attractions of the brilliant Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising), a book of poems displaying such originality and mastery that it will, I suspect, be discussed and imitated in MFA workshops and advanced poetry classes throughout the country, probably preceded by the instructor's remark, 'This, folks, is how it's done.'"--B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher: Poems, "Mark Wagenaar's poems are brimful of the world--generous, fluid, packed with an avid music, with praise and astonishment. In poem after poem, Wagenaar renders a sense of 'a still life with everything in the world,' not in an attempt to freeze-frame the moment but in order to register everything in the moment, in all its registers, as the moment passes. Therefore, The Body Distances is both ecstatic and elegiac. These are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which 'the unlikely continues/ to dovetail with the present.'--James Haug, Juniper Prize for Poetry co-judge and author of The Stolen Car"As with those poets who seem to be his touchstones--Larry Levis, Charles Wright, and Albert Goldbarth come to mind--Mark Wagenaar's poems are capacious, restless narratives and lyrics that are both emotionally nuanced and remarkably fluent in their ability to juggle allusions that range from Dante to Donald Trump, from Madame Curie to Lex Luthor. Yet the erudition of his poems always arises from urgency rather than from the desire for an easy tour de force. As the title of his collection suggests, Wagenaar's poems are suffused with an acute sense of our mortality, but they are also, in their ambition and relentlessness, oddly celebratory. The Body Distances is a book to savor and return to."--David Wojahn, author of World Tree"Charting how our bodies break and bridge toward spirit, Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances traces what our flesh endures from sleeping pills, garbage dumps, coal dust, whiskey, and muons, yet manages to find mercy in a Whitmanesque power to marvel at a mutilated world. This is an 'all too human' book by a marvelous poet right when we need it the most."--Mark Irwin, author of American Urn: Selected Poems"Gustav Mahler, whose four-part, unfinished tenth symphony provides thematic armature for Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances, once admonished 'die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt. Sie muss alles unfassen' ('the symphony must be a world. It must embrace everything'). Wagenaar possesses a prodigious, sonic, ekphrastic, symphonic imagination equal to Mahler's manifesto (Mahler also said that 'If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music'). It feels that all of life is offered here, in a stirring range of tonal and formal registers--from Adele to de Chirico, Donald Trump's Hair to the Cloud of Unknowing, Mid-western pick-up truck meth labs to Pagliacci, elegiac sonnets to polka troubadours, baseball stats to the ecstatic ledger of the Book of Little Miracles. To shout-out to a clear ancestor of this book, Walt Whitman: Mark Wagenaar is a kosmos, and his book--replete with 'everything in the World'--stitches a host of luminous, grace-buttressed bridges among their, among our, distances."--Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Vanitas, Rough"Long lines and graceful, extended syntax that are on the far side of what is sometimes inadequately called poetic prose; big, inspired leaps from one end of the metaphor to the other; a style rather beyond the merely elliptical yet never falling into the discretely discontinuous; a meaning-making imagination that vibrates with semantic energy; and a young mind that nevertheless deserves the adjective, 'learned.' These are only a few of the attractions of the brilliant Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising), a book of poems displaying such originality and mastery that it will, I suspect, be discussed and imitated in MFA workshops and advanced poetry classes throughout the country, probably preceded by the instructor's remark, 'This, folks, is how it's done.'"--B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher: Poems, Mark Wagenaar's poems are brimful of the world--generous, fluid, packed with an avid music, with praise and astonishment. In poem after poem, Wagenaar renders a sense of 'a still life with everything in the world,' not in an attempt to freeze-frame the moment but in order to register everything in the moment, in all its registers, as the moment passes. Therefore, The Body Distances is both ecstatic and elegiac. These are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which 'the unlikely continues/ to dovetail with the present.'""--James Haug, Juniper Prize for Poetry co-judge and author of The Stolen Car ""As with those poets who seem to be his touchstones--Larry Levis, Charles Wright, and Albert Goldbarth come to mind--Mark Wagenaar's poems are capacious, restless narratives and lyrics that are both emotionally nuanced and remarkably fluent in their ability to juggle allusions that range from Dante to Donald Trump, from Madame Curie to Lex Luthor. Yet the erudition of his poems always arises from urgency rather than from the desire for an easy tour de force. As the title of his collection suggests, Wagenaar's poems are suffused with an acute sense of our mortality, but they are also, in their ambition and relentlessness, oddly celebratory. The Body Distances is a book to savor and return to.""--David Wojahn, author of World Tree ""Charting how our bodies break and bridge toward spirit, Mark Wagenaar's The Body Distances traces what our flesh endures from sleeping pills, garbage dumps, coal dust, whiskey, and muons, yet manages to find mercy in a Whitmanesque power to marvel at a mutilated world. This is an 'all too human' book by a marvelous poet right when we need it the most.""--Mark Irwin, author of American Urn: Selected Poems
Copyright Date
2016
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2016-004217
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Juniper Prize for Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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