The king's touch : poems /
Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems...
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
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Table of Contents:
- I. Youth
- In which a spider weaves a web on my computer screen
- "refugee"
- Not-her
- Bernini's David as a young man with slingstone and an electronics repair shop
- Confession
- Up the hill
- Reading
- A dictator walks into a bar
- Fly
- II. Dream of a song woven from the veil
- Dead me, live me
- Migration
- False teeth
- Black dog, white dog
- Words from Chernobyl
- After a sentence in a letter from Pasternak to Rilke, 1926
- Poetic range
- Homage tot Vallejo's "Hymn to the Volunteers of the Republic. Another disgrace ; Twilight in the future ; Dream dreamed a millennium too late
- What I can say in 2021 about a famine in 2011
- Clearance
- Last cigarette
- Apology to my daughter
- III. Breaker
- Ostrich
- At Yeat's tower
- Queen for a day
- Stethoscope. The unified field ; A toast to Pavlov's dog ; The judgment after the last ; Mission ; Sunday is never the last day of the week ; Last rites ; The hunger artist as a senior citizen
- A man plays Debussy for a blind, eighty-four-year-old female elephant
- My mother as the eyes of a whale on her ninety-second birthday
- Conversation
- For my mother's ninety-sixth birthday
- IV. The King's touch
- Little testament
- The King's evil
- Age of wonder.