Night Music: Poems by L. E. Sissman

By L. E. Sissman

EPUB eISBN: 9780544105577
Original ebook: 1999
Electronic booklet: 2012
Poems by way of: Sissman
Selected by means of: Davison
Introduction by means of: Hirsch

Selected by means of Peter Davison with an creation through Edward Hirsch. Sissman used to be a real phenomenon in American poetry. He released his first e-book, a suite of antic, autobiographical episodes in clean verse, in 1968. 8 years and 3 books later, he died of Hodgkin's illness on the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's extraordinary ultimate poems John Updike wrote, "What different poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his personal death? His poetry gave again to lifestyles extra generously than he had bought, and carried his attractive wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has chosen from his lifework the fundamental poems—the essence of an American unique. (A Mariner unique)

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Natalis nostrae signum misere puellae et manibus faustos ter crepuere sonos. transeat hic sine nube dies, stent aere uenti, ponat et in sicco molliter unda minas. aspiciam nullos hodierna luce dolentis; et Niobae lacrimas supprimat ipse lapis; alcyonum positis requiescant ora querelis; increpet absumptum nec sua mater Itym. tuque, o cara mihi, felicibus edita pennis, surge et poscentis iusta precare deos. ac primum pura somnum tibi discute lympha, et nitidas presso pollice Wnge comas: dein qua primum oculos cepisti ueste Properti indue, nec uacuum Xore relinque caput; et pete, qua polles, ut sit tibi forma perennis, inque meum semper stent tua regna caput.

78 Cynthia is thus taking up the vocabulary of the rude forces which Propertius, in his idealistic regard for her idealised self, rejected. It is a hard blow for him. Given this technique of ironic eVect by verbal echo, we might look back at the harshly sudden introduction to the Wnal speech ‘sic ait in molli Wxa toro cubitum’ (34). One reason it does sound so harsh is, I think, that it echoes, while jumbling up, sounds and ideas from the idealistic Wrst portion of the poem. As a whole, it is clearly reminiscent in construction and sound of line 8 ‘Cynthia non certis nixa caput manibus’, the description of the idealised Cynthia’s statuesque position.

The situation alluded to is not thus the conventional one of the exclusus amator. namque magniWcently reveals Cynthia’s tenuous feminine logic. The thought process is: ‘you must have been sleeping with another girl, for where else could you have been . ’. 67 The claim, anticipated by referens68 and nostro . . lecto, is of course part of Cynthia’s version of the marriage convention,69 and the perversion of the elegiac conception is now plain. nostro lecto could have turned out all right, but meae noctis, given the tone of the speech, is the expression of a domineering wife of terrible reality, not the dream spouse of poetry.

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