Partially kept /
Martha Ronk.
- Callicoon, N.Y. : Lebanon, NH : Nightboat Books ; Distributed by University Press of New England, c2012.
- 67 p. ; 21 cm.
Poems.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part one, Partially kept: Or -- By parallaxis -- Sound -- The quincunx -- Things observable -- My partial tongue -- The particular state wherein you reside -- Grafting -- The dtalks of mint -- Alpines -- The fold -- Restless -- Refusal -- Downpour -- The bittern -- Incision -- Drowning -- Indistinguishable -- Position -- Manifest -- Colour -- Tendrils -- Simple -- The -- Part two, No sky: Relics -- Needful -- A slight thing -- A preconceived idea -- West wind -- Aporia -- A photograph of a side window -- Reading & writing & stealing -- After visiting for a time it is time to go (with umbrella) -- No sky -- Elegy -- Reading her thinking -- Incomplete form -- Interpretation -- Events -- An exceptional reality -- Part three, August : Remembrance -- Re-reading -- August -- The ardor -- Let rhetoric -- Dangling modifier -- Orlando -- With color -- A sickly Polaroid -- Attachments -- The light on the water.
"In Partially Kept, Ronk's elegiac and lyrical poetry responds to a world marked by transience and loss. Quotations by 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne highlight historical shifts in language, creating intertextual poems that consider the botanical world, the art of photography, and philosophy. Ronk's attention to rhetoric and representation speak to the shifting temporality between one thing and another, between one mind and another"--Publisher's website.