Inevitable Weather: Poems - Softcover

Cook Mdsc Bchd Fds Rcsed Morth, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403380937 ISBN 13: 9781403380937

Publisher: 1st Book Library, 2003

Synopsis

This collection of poetry by Paul Cook will be a window of profound glazing for those readers who ve always admired Cook s stock of surprising imagery in his novels of science fiction It is also a further magical excursion into lost forms dreams and memory and is a call to the worlds we never see This is a delightful book Norman Dubie Author of The Mercy Seat and The Clouds of Magellan

About this title

From the Author

The ancient Chinese poet Han Shan used to write his poems on Cold Mountain and make little paper boats of them. He'd float them downstream and forget about them. Publishing poetry today is like that. The poems of a hundred thousand poets come out then float downstream into limbo, never to be seen or heard from again.

This is my self-published manuscript that (along with the 10,000 to 12,000 other poetry manuscripts that are sent out every year) has been rejected by all the New York publishers and the thirty or so poetry contests that are held every year by university presses. Even these words, the ones you are reading now, are like Han Shan's poems: seen only by those who happen upon them by accident.

So here my poems are, courtesy of a fine press in Indiana, none of which are soggy from the gentle descent from my own Cold Mountain.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The Moon Over Maricopa

The moon over Maricopa
Is a carved heart,
Or one
Caught in progress—
The paring knife checked,
As if in doubt with what’s
Been done so far.

I’ve traveled this route before,
Seen the same desert lights
Of the far Walapai farms dangle just
Out of human reach,

The horizon always imagined,
Never where you think it will be.

In this corridor of light
On the highway north
Of Tucson
You sleep beside me,
Your own darkness recently shorn.
I forget the magician’s name

Or why it had to be—
Though I see how your lips
Easily recall his name as you dream.

I watch the moon over Maricopa.

There is blood light everywhere we turn.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403380937
• ISBN 13: 9781403380937
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 108