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Humana Press Inc. Silences For Love: Vox Humana by David Cope
David Cope's fifth book, Silences for Love, is framed in elegies, prophet Martin King to old friend Allen Ginsberg, opening with lights fading & flaring over Lake Superior, closing with one leaf in the hidden meadow. Here are the weary traveler & one-eyed boy, Gettysburg sundown, sighs over Sarajevo & massacre at the Patriarch's tomb, snowstorm canoe trip ending with a brother beneath Northern Lights-deaths & weddings, reunions in companion love, Oklahoma City trail of tears, asking blessing to learn healing. Here too are long silence & welcome home: in aging harlequin & his gypsy, in the runes of the Two-Hearted River, in dreams & visions going & coming, memory of a lost friend trapped on corpse detail, rush hour traffic jam, old bridge & hidden meadow, snowstorm near-death car crash, old friend fired hence with a last call for love, free clothes, & newly unfurling leaf.
Silences for Love also offers "skillful technique, attention to minute particulars & variable foot," continuing to extend the demotic traditions of American poetry established by Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Reznikoff Turning.Full Moon Over Whitefish Bay.Coming Home.murky night full of.They return. Devil's Den. At the Holocaust memorial. For Martin King. Variations on Summer Mountains. A Testament. words Old Man.Sarajevo Market Massacre. February 25, 1994.A Day in the Life.Mother & Child. push off.Dear Jim.For Morgan.Memory in Love.
Not As You Were.The Triumph of Love.The Lovers at Sunrise.Calamus For Antler.when the dove. July Dusk.Many Reunions.Fireworks over the Flatirons.A Vision.How must the meadows.From My Tent.You, young boy.Back Thru The Veil.The Mechanics Beyond My Garden Fence.Homeward Bound, Dreams of Uzi Alley.cutting basil.Back Thru the Veil (Friday in the Madhouse).Today is your birthday.New Life.Sitting.December.Ancient Rain Everyone gone. A Cold & Clear Day, February.Ann Arbor Song.April.Dawn.Waking.The Rhododendron.Silences for Love.American Song Table of contents :Turning.Full Moon Over Whitefish Bay.Coming Home.murky night full of.They return. Devil's Den. At the Holocaust memorial. For Martin King. Variations on Summer Mountains. A Testament. words Old Man.Sarajevo Market Massacre. February 25, 1994.A Day in the Life.Mother & Child. push off.Dear Jim.For Morgan.Memory in Love.
Not As You Were.The Triumph of Love.The Lovers at Sunrise.Calamus For Antler.when the dove. July Dusk.Many Reunions.Fireworks over the Flatirons.A Vision.How must the meadows.From My Tent.You, young boy.Back Thru The Veil.The Mechanics Beyond My Garden Fence.Homeward Bound, Dreams of Uzi Alley.cutting basil.Back Thru the Veil (Friday in the Madhouse).Today is your birthday.New Life.Sitting.December.Ancient Rain Everyone gone. A Cold & Clear Day, February.Ann Arbor Song.April.Dawn.Waking.The Rhododendron.Silences for Love.American