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Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection—and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” she pushes experiments in consciousness against their boundaries in an array of poetic forms. Poetic tropes are measured against natural phenomena as Mullen examines what “witness” might mean in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the failures of capitalism to effect social justice, the murder of James Byrd in Texas, the personal loss of a mother figure, and a disintegrating love affair.
Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection—and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” she pushes experiments in consciousness against their boundaries in an array of poetic forms. Poetic tropes are measured against natural phenomena as Mullen examines what “witness” might mean in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the failures of capitalism to effect social justice, the murder of James Byrd in Texas, the personal loss of a mother figure, and a disintegrating love affair.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 152
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: New California Poetry
Publication Date:
29 March 2011
Trim Size: 8.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520268869
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“A strong collection of poetry.”
Laura Mullen’s first collection of poems, The Surface, was chosen as a National Poetry Series selection; her second collection, After I Was Dead, was selected for the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. She is also the author of Subject (UC Press), and two hybrid texts: The Tales of Horror and Murmur.
System
Acknowledgments
Cloud Cover
window/ candle
No Voice
In the Space between Words Begin
Remediation Attempt
I Wandered Networks like a Cloud
The Author Is Not
I Wandered (Phony) As
By and By
Little Landscape
I Wandered Her Voice
The Proofs Arrive
As
Stratocumulus
Prose Poem
White Box
Original Material
Studying Clouds (A Trick of the Light)
Parts of Speech
Sound Barrier
Cloud as Lonely
Images, Similes, Some Alliteration
Collide and Coalesce
Code
The White Box of Mirror Dissolved Is Not Singular
Passages
Turn
If
TURN
OWN STRING
A POOL POOLS
IN YOU INSIDE
WREST WORD CLOUD
NO ON COINAGE
EX SELF
EXPANSION EXPANSION
WILDERNESS HERE MATTER
EAST LAST
TRUTH HOUSE MATERIALS PUBLICITY
TRUTH END
POLIS IS SPACE
SAME SAME
NAME CRIME
EXAMPLE AMERICA
INTERPRETING TURNING THINGS
UTTER UTTERLY
Troposphere
Pass
Cloud Seeding: From a Journal
The Visual World behind My Head
Virga
Orographic
(Stratus) Endlessness
Cloud Money
Message
Daisies
On a Clear Day
Love (Stratus)
Love (Stratus Opacus)
Love (Opacus)
Love (Scud)
Edge of There
Love (Altocumulus Translucidus & Altostratus Opacus)
Desire
(Pieces from the Broken Roof of an Abandoned Passage)
After-Image (Louisiana Company)
Spoke of a Blueprint
Should Have Ended
The Motif Modifies Space
Even in My Dreams the Knowledge
Ghost Mist
Evaporation / Condensation
Acknowledgments
Cloud Cover
window/ candle
No Voice
In the Space between Words Begin
Remediation Attempt
I Wandered Networks like a Cloud
The Author Is Not
I Wandered (Phony) As
By and By
Little Landscape
I Wandered Her Voice
The Proofs Arrive
As
Stratocumulus
Prose Poem
White Box
Original Material
Studying Clouds (A Trick of the Light)
Parts of Speech
Sound Barrier
Cloud as Lonely
Images, Similes, Some Alliteration
Collide and Coalesce
Code
The White Box of Mirror Dissolved Is Not Singular
Passages
Turn
If
TURN
OWN STRING
A POOL POOLS
IN YOU INSIDE
WREST WORD CLOUD
NO ON COINAGE
EX SELF
EXPANSION EXPANSION
WILDERNESS HERE MATTER
EAST LAST
TRUTH HOUSE MATERIALS PUBLICITY
TRUTH END
POLIS IS SPACE
SAME SAME
NAME CRIME
EXAMPLE AMERICA
INTERPRETING TURNING THINGS
UTTER UTTERLY
Troposphere
Pass
Cloud Seeding: From a Journal
The Visual World behind My Head
Virga
Orographic
(Stratus) Endlessness
Cloud Money
Message
Daisies
On a Clear Day
Love (Stratus)
Love (Stratus Opacus)
Love (Opacus)
Love (Scud)
Edge of There
Love (Altocumulus Translucidus & Altostratus Opacus)
Desire
(Pieces from the Broken Roof of an Abandoned Passage)
After-Image (Louisiana Company)
Spoke of a Blueprint
Should Have Ended
The Motif Modifies Space
Even in My Dreams the Knowledge
Ghost Mist
Evaporation / Condensation