Daytime and Starlight: Poems - Hardcover

Applewhite, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807121495 ISBN 13: 9780807121498

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1997

Synopsis

In this powerful collection, James Applewhite searches the world, from the back roads of his own American Southeast to the antiquities of Europe, for an expanded awareness of history. Time itself, these poems seem to say, is wholeness, the communion of generations, and it is in history, whether of the world, community, or our own families, that we find the locus of our common yearnings. Lucid, conversational, and utterly compelling, Daytime and Starlight presents through an array of perspectives the ephemera of memory - comic strips, love letters, newsreels, popular music, Greek and Roman statuary - and juxtaposes them with a flawless instinct for the telling detail against contemporary notions of evolution and cosmology. A half-remembered chiaroscuro of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr on the beach, the haunting familiarity of figures in a Renaissance tapestry, the vision of air "green with evening" - in such brief suspensions of time, love and beauty balance regret and loss. Time and again, in poem after poem, Applewhite strikes a clear, bell-like tone of affirmation: "We're all in this together."

About this title

About the Author

James Applewhite has published seven previous volumes of poetry, most recently A History of the River. Among his numerous honors are the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Jean Stein Award in Poetry, the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and election into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is professor of English at Duke University.

Review

The Absence Of New Graves In Fields
Autumnal Equinox
Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains
Circling The Time Line
Civilian Spotter Station
Coming Home To The Villa Aurelia
Dancing With My Cousin
The Day
Daytime And Starlight
Descending In St. Cement's
A Distant Father
Father And Son
From Here To Eternity
In The Capitoline Museum
Inheriting The Homeplace
Jamestown
A Late Sun
Letter To My Wife, From Minnesota
The Long Silence
The Mortal Father
My Grandparents Never Watched Star Trek
On Winslow Homer's Weaning The Calf
Postwar Days
Reading Tarzan In Eastern Carolina
Replacements, Ltd
The River-radio: Women's Voices
A Run With The Double River
Sailing The Inlet
A Tapestry In The Palazzo Pamphili
University Library Revisited
View From The Shore
A Voice At The River Park
Wings
Wrightsville, Thinking Of Wordsworth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807121495
• ISBN 13: 9780807121498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64