By Christopher Gilbert
A milestone book of the past due Christopher Gilbert's poetry, with an advent through the nationwide ebook Award winner Terrance Hayes
Lord, the affliction of my Black block rises up in me
like a grief. My purely probability to move past being breach--
to withstand being quelled as a little bit internal urban entropy--
is to talk up for the general public which has birthed me.
To construct this language residence. To make this example. Create.
This loving which lives outdoors time. Lord, this is often time.
--from "Turning into Dwelling"
Christopher Gilbert's award-winning Across the Mutual Landscape has turn into an underground vintage of up to date American poetry. Now reissued and awarded with Gilbert's never-before-published final manuscript written ahead of his demise in 2007, Turning into Dwelling bargains new readers the unique tune and imaginative and prescient of 1 of our so much artistic poets.
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Qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 18 Here in Katmandu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 r37 l38 We have climbed the mountain. There’s nothing more to do. It is terrible to come down To the valley Where, amidst many flowers, One thinks of snow, As, formerly, amidst snow, Climbing the mountain, One thought of flowers, Tremulous, ruddy with dew, In the valley. One caught their scent coming down. It is difficult to adjust, once down, To the absence of snow.
It is the lurch and slur the world makes turning. It is the sound of turning, of a wheel Or hand-cranked grinder turning, though more pomp To this, more fiery particles struck off At each revolve; and the last turn reveals The darker side of what was light before. qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 33 Six stars shine through the dark, and half a moon! Night birds go spiralling upward with a flash Of silvery underwings, silver ascendings, The light of stars and of the moon their light, And water lilies open to the moon, The moon in wrinkles on the water’s face.
I publish of my folk how they have prospered With something in the eyes perhaps inherent, Or great-winged nose, bespeaking an acquaintance, Not casual and not recent, with a monster, Citing, as an example of some courage, That aunt, long gone, who kept one in a bird cage Thirty-odd years in shape of a green parrot, Nor overcame her fears, yet missed no feeding, Thrust in the crumbs with thimbles on her fingers. I had an uncle, long of arm and hairy, Who seldom spoke in any lady’s hearing Lest that his tongue should light on aught unseemly, Yet he could treat most kindly with us children Touching that beast, wholly imaginary, Which, hunting once, his hounds had got the wind of.