Hereafter /
In Hereafter, Alan Felsenthal's second collection of poems, we witness the difficult work of the poet mourning the loss of a dear friend. Essential in their attempt at consolation, these poems search through grief for signs of life and renewal. Remorseful elegies that try to rescue symbols of s...
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Brooklyn, New York :
Song Cave,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- I. Elegy
- Before lighthouses, God wrecked ships
- In silhouette
- The buffer of hedges
- Cover letter
- Dreamship helmsman
- Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth
- II. Gull Island
- Stay dry
- It is possible
- Self-portrait
- Memory of the deeps
- Bowing to a cloud
- My atmosphere
- Happening upon a scavenger hunt at the museum,
- A man at sea on earth undone by disturbance when he appears most anchored
- Days flee from good
- We live like boys who died
- Impasse at sunset
- Poem of the pond
- Ordering a casket from Amazon Prime
- The borderland of vision
- Shrouds without pockets
- What's the past like?
- If you want to live alone in a bee-loud glade
- Earthward
- The hawk at Washington Square Park
- III. Is my higher soul speaking?