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Giannelli, Adam, author.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Tremulous hinge : po...
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Tremulous hinge : poems / by Adam Giannelli.
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Giannelli, Adam, author.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
Subjects
American poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781609384869 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) :
Series:
Iowa poetry prize.
Description:
x, 77 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Stutter -- Fern and shadow -- Sealevel -- Star gazers -- Hydrangea -- How the light is spent -- Porcupine -- My insomnia -- Latee -- Garland -- The string -- The brunt -- Orchids, avenues -- Little winds -- Aspens in wind -- Passage -- Sweet imposition -- Curl -- Gravity -- On a line by Proust -- Knot in the wood -- The phone call -- Perch -- Incurable cloud -- Half the leaves -- What we know -- A thousand small nights -- Light-footed -- Reflections -- The shards still trembling -- Hush -- Like the touch of bent grass -- Clearing, clear -- Plea for interlude -- Rain -- For Nashaly -- The opposite of sugar.
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Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia--in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: "moths all swarming the / same light bulb." From the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge between word and world. Ultimately, among lofting waves, collapsing hands, and darkening skies, words themselves--a stutterer's maneuvers through speech, a deceased grandfather's use of punctuation--become forms of consolation. From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes.
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