"'Hard to hear new music. / Hard to let that meandering dentist / work,' Tim Kelly tells us in one of [these] strikingly original poems. And though the book is firmly rooted in the body and its often painful reawakenings (Kelly is a physical therapist), it is, finally, the mind bending the poems that engages and holds the reader with the subtle and accurate connections it makes.
If your mental muscle tone is growing sluggish, Articulation is guaranteed to flex the imagination and restore full mobility."
Table of Contents:
I. Does Enough HappenDoes Enough Happen?
Three Movements From Tai Chi Chuan
Closed Head Injury
The Receptive
New Music
Three Bony Landmarks
Trillium
Oytermen
Works In Olympia, WA
Snapshot Of Them Enshrined Above My Desk
Riding the T in Boston, I Realize
Skin
Articulation
So
Forced Bulbs
II. Clasp
Butler's Lives Of The Saints
Smokestack Lightning
Chinese Finger Trap
Two Special Senses
Gait Cycle
Lines Around The Eyes
Nudes
The Blue Hole, Castalia, OH
Clasp
III. Will This Change
Reverberating Circuits
Pursuit Of Wealth
Dusk
Bowline
Red Radish
Rabbit's Foot
On A Breeze Through Eureka
Three Back To Back Bad Backs
Ilwaco Lighthouse
In Service
Against Ambition
Sitting Up With Colicky Cole
Orcas Breaching, Tacoma Narrows
Dear Pat,
Generosity
Sanding Maple Table Legs
Will This Change?
About the Author :
Timothy Kelly was born in Cleveland and educated at Oberlin, Boston University, and the University of Washington. Since 1982 he has worked as a physical therapist in Olympia, Washington, where he lives with his wife and two sons. Articulation, winner of the King County Arts Commission Publication Award, is his first full-length collection of poems.
Review :
"'Hard to hear new music. / Hard to let that meandering dentist / work, ' Tim Kelly tells us in one of [these] strikingly original poems. And though the book is firmly rooted in the body and its often painful reawakenings (Kelly is a physical therapist), it is, finally, the mind bending the poems that engages and holds the reader with the subtle and accurate connections it makes. If your mental muscle tone is growing sluggish, Articulation is guaranteed to flex the imagination and restore full mobility."--Madeline DeFrees
