In this new collection of poetry, Sidney Wade includes poems written in many forms that touch on a variety of subjects, all informed by a singular voice and an intensely vibrant language. The volume is set primarily in Istanbul and illuminates physical and metaphysical borders-the edges, everywhere, of water and land; of vanished empires left standing, in architectural form, in the present; of two continents, Europe and Asia; of the broader Western and Eastern cultures and the civilizations that inhabit them. The compelling intricacy of the tangled borders of history and myth, culture and conquest is alluring in a physical, almost erotic sense. The landscape of these poems ranges from the shores of the Orient to include a uniquely metaphysical American Midwest, recognizable territory to readers of Wade's first collection, Empty Sleeves, as well as the classical underworld, Romanesque basilicas in Rome, the often rocky terrain of the territory of marriage, and the more intimate geographies of the kitchen, the cupboard, the bed, and the body. Her subjects extend from the baroque image of Byzantine artifacts to the semiotic resonance of a pair of steeply angled spike-heeled pumps. The book begins in bliss and ends on the brink, in a journey that charts the intricacies of the all-too-human, bewildered heart.
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Alcaic Figure
Another Passionless Day
Barn
Bricolage
Bronze Dogs
Byzantium
A Calm November. Sunday In The Fields
Catalogue Raisonne
Cow Ford
Death Lives Everywhere We Live It Feathers
Dido In The Underworld
Dog Sonnet
Dolphins In The Snow
Domestic Sonnet
Drinking Wine On Hill Above Confluence Of Bosphorus And Golden Horn
Figure 1: Wind At Night
Figure 2: Hot Wind, Hot Sun
For My Mother
Fragments, After Anakreon
Galata Bridge
Green
In Sight
In The Library
Incident In A Rose Garden
Istanbul Is Empty
The Lighter Ferries
Marriage; A Moment
Nine Losses, All Supportable
On The Verge
Persistence Of Vision; After Herakleitos
Premature Ventricular Contractions
Pure Hollow Tone
Rain
Santa Prassede, Rome
A Seated Demon
Shore
Smoking Sonnet
Stella Maris
Three Haiku
Trapped In My Rib-cage Something Throes And Aches
Turkish Bath
Turnabout
Voice
What A Gyp
The Word
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Another Passionless Day
Barn
Bricolage
Bronze Dogs
Byzantium
A Calm November. Sunday In The Fields
Catalogue Raisonne
Cow Ford
Death Lives Everywhere We Live It Feathers
Dido In The Underworld
Dog Sonnet
Dolphins In The Snow
Domestic Sonnet
Drinking Wine On Hill Above Confluence Of Bosphorus And Golden Horn
Figure 1: Wind At Night
Figure 2: Hot Wind, Hot Sun
For My Mother
Fragments, After Anakreon
Galata Bridge
Green
In Sight
In The Library
Incident In A Rose Garden
Istanbul Is Empty
The Lighter Ferries
Marriage; A Moment
Nine Losses, All Supportable
On The Verge
Persistence Of Vision; After Herakleitos
Premature Ventricular Contractions
Pure Hollow Tone
Rain
Santa Prassede, Rome
A Seated Demon
Shore
Smoking Sonnet
Stella Maris
Three Haiku
Trapped In My Rib-cage Something Throes And Aches
Turkish Bath
Turnabout
Voice
What A Gyp
The Word
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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