Bellen, Martine The Vulnerability of Order ISBN 13: 9781556591570

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Wildness and disorder. Martine Bellen's third collection of poetry taps into the chaotic and irrepressible spirit which inspires artistic expression. Whether exploiting philosophical fragments from ancient Greece or penetrating the rituals of the great world religions, Bellen is in search of a model through which artists might organize the expansiveness of the human spirit.

"Bellen is a sensualist with a taste for vernacular as refined as C.D. Wright's...—Bellen's giddy, insouciant renderings of our thickly mythic polis seem fresh, and appear to create their author from the tactile fragments of the text."—Publishers Weekly

Martine Bellen's Tales of Murasaki won the 1999 National Poetry Series Award. She lives in New York.

For the Saturday Evening Girls' Pottery Club

Please, oh please, spread something sweet
Over my shredded wheat

That rests upon this yellow plate,
fired in its biscuit state.

Mystic swastika hands abound,
Fortune, luck, well-being found,

And bowls with bands of ducks
and trees, ring around the ABCs.

Hand-thrown pots incised in ink;
Still-soft clay initials sink.

Please, today, come sip some tea
with small designs, each cup's jolie,

The harmony lies not in line
But deeper in the object's rhyme.

Magic Musee for Joseph Cornell

(excerpt)

She, who's overconscious of her cage
Formed from heat, moisture, frost, concealment,

How it drips, freezes, fogs
How it forms columnar cracks gashed with glass

Toward the blue peninsula, gravity flight
The visible half of reflection

Attempting to obtain the solidity of an object

Or to remove the clothing of sound, genealogical anxiety,
Disrobing at the hotel Eden

Inventing a way in
To that which is built over concept

Pochahontas

(excerpt)

Too far away to be
seen singly, they come

Together. The coat-wearing
People. They come

On floating isles. Carry
Thunder sticks. They look

For back seas where clove
And mulberry grow. They come

From beyond the gr

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Martine Bellen, author of two previous books of poetry, is a senior editor for Conjunctions. She has been a professor of writing at NYU, Hunter College, and others, and has worked as an editor at Carool & Graf and Henry Holt. Her awards include an American Academy of Poets Award. Her book Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems won the 1997 National Poetry Series Award.
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Magic Musee

for Joseph Cornell

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She, who’s overconscious of her cage

Formed from heat, moisture, frost, concealment,

How it drips, freezes, fogs

How it forms columnar cracks gashed with glass

Toward the blue peninsula, gravity flight

The visible half of reflection

Attempting to obtain the solidity of an object

Or to remove the clothing of sound, genealogical anxiety,

Disrobing at the hotel Eden

Inventing a way in

To that which is built over concept

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  • PublisherCopper Canyon Press
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 1556591578
  • ISBN 13 9781556591570
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages96

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wildness and disorder. Martine Bellen's third collection of poetry taps into the chaotic and irrepressible spirit which inspires artistic expression. Whether exploiting philosophical fragments from ancient Greece or penetrating the rituals of the great world religions, Bellen is in search of a model through which artists might organize the expansiveness of the human spirit."Bellen is a sensualist with a taste for vernacular as refined as C.D. Wright'sBellen's giddy, insouciant renderings of our thickly mythic polis seem fresh, and appear to create their author from the tactile fragments of the text."Publishers WeeklyMartine Bellen's Tales of Murasaki won the 1999 National Poetry Series Award. She lives in New York.For the Saturday Evening Girls' Pottery ClubPlease, oh please, spread something sweet Over my shredded wheatThat rests upon this yellow plate, fired in its biscuit state.Mystic swastika hands abound, Fortune, luck, well-being found,And bowls with bands of ducks and trees, ring around the ABCs.Hand-thrown pots incised in ink; Still-soft clay initials sink.Please, today, come sip some tea with small designs, each cup's jolie,The harmony lies not in line But deeper in the object's rhyme.Magic Musee for Joseph Cornell(excerpt)She, who's overconscious of her cage Formed from heat, moisture, frost, concealment,How it drips, freezes, fogs How it forms columnar cracks gashed with glassToward the blue peninsula, gravity flight The visible half of reflectionAttempting to obtain the solidity of an objectOr to remove the clothing of sound, genealogical anxiety, Disrobing at the hotel EdenInventing a way in To that which is built over conceptPochahontas(excerpt)Too far away to be seen singly, they comeTogether. The coat-wearing People. They comeOn floating isles. Carry Thunder sticks. They lookFor back seas where clove And mulberry grow. They comeFrom beyond the gr An exciting new poet's examination of human creativity and wildness. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781556591570

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