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These poems function as experiments in epistemology. Attentive to the ways that sensory experiences coalesce into cognition and the ways cognition remains always thoroughly sensory, these poems experiment with the complex ways in which being in the world means thinking with one's whole body. By occupying a variety of shifting subject positions, making use of various forms (both traditional and nonce forms), and engaging both explicitly and implicitly with texts from various traditions, these poems seek to address the cognitive, spiritual and erotic experiences, longings and desires that come with living in the material world. These concerns come into especially intense focus in the Creature poems. While the Creature is as human as anyone else, he has certain misgivings about the old term 'human,' especially insofar as it is associated with hierarchical notions of human domination that can sometimes slide into abuse. The Creature poems explore the subject's continuity with the world, including the world of artifice and technology. The Creature longs for a deeper connection to the world and to the divine, though he can experience great confusion about where to find either. The Creature is also thoroughly textual, and he longs for a new language in terms of which he can more truly live.

Table of Contents:
1 Their Solitary Way The Millennium Turning To the Reader Our Host Confused 'Evening Faces' History Plato's House Summer Traveler What is Found 'Why Not Be Totally Changed into Fire?' Such Blessing 'Their Solitary Way' The Operation Roughening 2 A Man Who Was Afraid of Language A Man Who Was Afraid of Language The Monastery Gate A Priest I Once What Was to Happen Already Occurred Drifting Summer Work What is Revealed Harold Graves Considers the Last Decade River Front Bar At the Archabbey Colloquy Sanctuary Country House Monuments Psalm in a Time of War 3 Creature Creature's Introduction Creature Downcast The Creature Bids Farewell to His Mate Creature Arrested Creature Back Home The Creature Entranced Creature's Class War The Creature Enraged Creature at the River Front Creature in Extremis The Creature Midway Creature's First Memory The Creature's Thanksgiving The Creature at Leisure Creature's Morning Song Creature Remembers His Mate Creature at the Mall Creature in Congruence with the Moon Summa Contra Creature Creature's Love Song Creature's Nightmare The Creature's Evening Creature at a Party Creature's Lament Creature by the Window Creature's Pronouncement Creature Lights a Candle The Creature Outside The Creature on Saturday Creature's Confession Creature on Delivery Creature at Rest The Creature Goes Home Again The Creature's Activism Creature at the Airport Creature on Art The Creature's Summa Creature on the Town Creature on the Fourth of July The Creature on His Beat Creature at Work Creature Considers the Dark Creature Meets the Executioner The Creature's Reverie The Creature Walking The Creature's Sadness Creature at the Piano The Creature Searching The Creature in Repose

About the Author :
Jerry Harp grew up in Mt. Vernon, Indiana (U.S.A.). He has degrees from Saint Meinrad College (B.A.), Saint Louis University (M.A.), the University of Florida (M.F.A.), and the University of Iowa (2002). His books of poetry include Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004). He co-edited, with Jan Weissmiller, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006). His reviews appear regularly in Pleiades. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.

Review :
Jerry Harp's dreamscape poems are sturdier than they first appear, a pleasing series of contemplations of the millennial aesthetique du mal. Time after time, it is the tension between panic and good manners that he manages to make dramatic and attractive. A very impressive first collection! -- David R. Slavitt Let the new poet discover all at once his true subject and he will begin writing easily and very well. Jerry Harp is not the only poet to have had such luck, but so far as I know, he may well be the latest. -- Donald Justice


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  • ISBN-13: 9781844711604
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1844711609
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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