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North True South Bright
Year
2019
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Alice James Books
Summary
This smart, lyrical collection explores the dangers of a world so complex that no single consciousness may grasp it-however much the attempt must be made. Following historical and imagined figures as they encounter specific moments or objects (such as Thomas Hariot in the Ameri-can Wilderness of the late 16th century), the poems attempt to record the unraveling of the safe and singular into a multiplicity of unknowns. Impelled by metaphor and lilting repetition, North True South Bright seeks a sense of the world, and ultimately, a sense of the Infinite. Hariot's Round I know, to entice, to convince, I must sing. Your ear inside stone, must sing. Gold bitten and true, the corn kernel, one seed. I must plant one gold seed in your mouth with my lips. Raleigh says: The Queen known my name. The Crown. Of a woodpecker is ruby, but shy. Inhabitants adorn themselves with feathers, and feathers. Bright on arrow ends. Bow-before a Queen. Bend closed my book.