Errings (Poets Out Loud) - Softcover

Streckfus, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823257762 ISBN 13: 9780823257768

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent―a lost leader, a remote love, a protege not yet born―and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next. “Videos of Fish,” the opening sequence, speaks to the spirit of the poet’s late father, adapting devices from Dante, Tibetan metaphysical
philosophy, and the biomechanics of the most primitive of vertebrate bodies, the fish, to envision paths of the disembodied soul. “How difficult it is to remain one person,” the poet claims, echoing Czesław Miłosz; in its progress between persons, the collection’s regular shifts in mode and form include the purgatorian tercet,
the Japanese poetic diary, didactic verse, the Persian ghazal, the erasure, and the miniature.

THE READER
Experience among the waves allows one to limit the field.

Each year he grew another soul, oblong, slightly pointed at the end, like
an oar, its surface turned to the light.

Blacken now and lift your news into the air.

About this title

Book Description

Errings, turns via apostrophe to address the absent―a late father, a future reader, a distant love, a protégé not yet born, a lost leader. It is spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the dreamt and the real.

About the Author

Peter Streckfus is Professor of English at George Mason University. He is the
author of The Cuckoo, winner of the 2003 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0823257762
• ISBN 13: 9780823257768
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96