Because a fire in our heads : poems / / Jay Udall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817353103321
• Autore: Udall Jay <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 9781680031515; 9781680031508
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (106 pages)
• Disciplina: 891.9
• Soggetti: American poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Because a fire in our heads: The well room -- Because a fire in our heads -- Accompaniment -- Fledgling -- Timed dive -- Tools of the trade -- The hidden grave -- Seen -- A certain confusion -- Camerado -- Lick and stroke -- Head massage -- Outside -- Extreme home makeover -- Blessings of the beasts: The following tiger -- Blessing of the beasts -- Door in the stone -- The rule of attraction -- Love bugs -- Embodied -- Passengers -- Before the harvest -- Snakes and tortoise -- To feed the feral -- To an armadillo -- Sleeping with the snake -- Lost feather, little wing -- Showing forth -- The gathering.; Leave-taking: Before leaving -- Shhhh -- Company -- Leave-taking -- Reading blind -- Grief songs -- For the making -- Anonymous -- The further definition -- Who travels in the ground -- Traveling here: Sometimes a bridge -- Exodus -- Rest area (no facilities) -- Passage -- Traveling here -- The oracle at Amarillo -- I slip on a pair of water moccasins -- Strike and harvest -- Jesus walks in blue above Louisiana -- In isolation -- Personal -- Louisiana 1 South in winter -- Sister of silence and vacant wind -- After the Chauvin Sculpture Garden -- Standby -- What returns: Meteor shower -- What returns -- After the murder of an old friend -- A faltering shelter -- The witness under cross-examination -- This dirt speaks -- Leaf -- Where it begins -- Void -- Skinned -- Night rises, seeping -- Walking home -- Notes -- Dedication and thanks.
• Sommario/riassunto: These poems explore desire in its many forms--sensual, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual--confronting an infinite cosmos, existential separateness and vulnerability, violence, injustice, and death. This book enacts a running conversation with American cultural history, neuroscience, particle physics, religion, baseball, zoology, other poems and poets, jazz, blues, and zydeco, ranging through time and across New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana, Virginia, and points in between and beyond.