Black aperture : poems /
Rasmussen, Matt.
Black aperture : poems / Matt Rasmussen. - 64 pages ; 22 cm
"LSU Press Paperback Original" -- Title page verso.
I Trajectory -- after suicide -- the orange leaves -- 747 -- the wave -- and God said. -- I am not a poem -- tom black -- field with whales -- after suicide -- in the whoever's hotel room this is -- vacation cage -- monet as a verb -- we're not the stars, we're what's between them -- seed -- chekhov's gun -- II elegy in x parts -- III outgoing -- land o' lakes -- a poem in which leaves again figure prominently -- burial -- aperture.
"In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother?s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In ?Outgoing?, the speaker erases his brother?s answering machine message to save his family from ?the shame of dead you / answering calls?. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb ?blooms downward, a flower / of smoldering filaments?. A refrigerator holds ?an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables / dying in the crisper?. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief." -- author's website
Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2012.
9780807150863
2012038045
Suicide--Poetry.
PS3618.A775 / B53 2013
811/.6
Black aperture : poems / Matt Rasmussen. - 64 pages ; 22 cm
"LSU Press Paperback Original" -- Title page verso.
I Trajectory -- after suicide -- the orange leaves -- 747 -- the wave -- and God said. -- I am not a poem -- tom black -- field with whales -- after suicide -- in the whoever's hotel room this is -- vacation cage -- monet as a verb -- we're not the stars, we're what's between them -- seed -- chekhov's gun -- II elegy in x parts -- III outgoing -- land o' lakes -- a poem in which leaves again figure prominently -- burial -- aperture.
"In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother?s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In ?Outgoing?, the speaker erases his brother?s answering machine message to save his family from ?the shame of dead you / answering calls?. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb ?blooms downward, a flower / of smoldering filaments?. A refrigerator holds ?an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables / dying in the crisper?. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief." -- author's website
Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2012.
9780807150863
2012038045
Suicide--Poetry.
PS3618.A775 / B53 2013
811/.6