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Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Brenda Hillman
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isbn 9780819574152
Автор произведения Brenda Hillman
Жанр Поэзия
Серия Wesleyan Poetry Series
Издательство Ingram
I. ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELING
I went out to the hazel wood
Because a fire was in my head
W. B. YEATS
“The Song of Wandering Aengus”
Hummingbird darted from his perch and stole a spark of fire.
He tucked it under his throat and flew directly back home.
When he arrived at the coast, Coyote was nowhere to be found,
so Hummingbird stashed the fire in the buckeye tree.
JULES EVENS Transcription of
“Where Fire Comes From,” a Miwok tale
Hoy que en mis ojos brujos hay candelas.
[Today the candles burn in my witch eyes.]
CÉSAR VALLEJO “Los dados eternos”
Brenda, it doesn’t exist. JACK COLLOM
Conversational aside, Naropa
ARGUMENT:
microseasons, vowels, panicles, California grasses, existence, sex, the cosmos, childhood reading, guilt, noons, letters in summer fruit, autumn equinox, the stalk market, stemming the crisis, termites, winter electricity, the sixties, learning the y, solstice, spirits, wars we hate, motives, Candlemas, margins, spring songs, people with birthdays in May, Tesla, memory loss, deserts, Claudia & Don in the desert, summers in the Sierra, crosses in vineyards, the nineties, parents’ old age, codex, loops in consonants, drones, the body’s nerves, spoken bird poetry, candles in the witches’ eyes—these, my love, are made of fire—
TO SPIRITS OF FIRE AFTER HARVEST
Between earth
& its noun, i felt a fire …
—What does it mean by “i,” Mrs?
—It means, (& i quote): one
of the vowels in the brain
& some of the you’s—;