LEADER 03769nam 22005295 450 001 9910791560903321 005 20230725015954.0 010 $a1-282-97642-7 010 $a9786612976421 010 $a1-4008-3824-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400838240 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055369 035 $a(EBL)664596 035 $a(OCoLC)713266680 035 $a(DE-B1597)446984 035 $a(OCoLC)979749695 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400838240 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC664596 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055369 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCarnations $ePoems /$fAnthony Carelli 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2011] 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource (72 p.) 225 0 $aPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets ;$v57 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14945-3 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tThe Sabbath -- $tGlass Work Song -- $tThe Prophets -- $tThe Muse -- $tThe Crusades -- $tThe Builder -- $tThe Collar -- $tThe Apostles -- $tDiscernment -- $tThe Chance -- $tIn Ordinary Time -- $tOctober Advent -- $tThe Begats -- $tThe Shepherd -- $tLectio Divina -- $tThe Hours -- $tAgnus Dei -- $tThe Brooklyn Heavens -- $tEvangelical -- $tBirthday -- $tSermon -- $tOriginal Sin -- $tFaith -- $tIncarnation -- $tNo, Euripides -- $tYahweh -- $tApples for Thoreau -- $tJerusalem -- $tThe Crucifixion -- $tThe Lord's Prayer -- $tThe Disciples -- $tSure -- $tAmen 330 $aIn Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet's materials--words, objects, phenomena--are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed. Often taking titles from a biblical vocabulary, Carnations reminds us that unremarkable places and events--a game of Frisbee in a winter park, workers stacking panes in a glass factory, or the daily opening of a café--can, in a blink, be new. A short walk home is briefly transformed into a cathedral, and the work-worn body becomes a dancer, a prophet, a muse.______ From Carnations:THE PROPHETS Anthony Carelli ? A river. And if not the river nearby, then a dream  of a river. Nothing happens that doesn't happen    along a river, however humble the water may be. Take Rowan Creek, the trickle struggling to lug  its mirroring across Poynette, wherein, suspended,    so gentle and shallow, I learned to walk, bobbing at my father's knees. Later, whenever we tried  to meander on our inner tubes, we'd get lodged    on the bottom. Seth, remember, no matter how we'd kick and shove off, we'd just get lodged again?  At most an afternoon would carry us a hundred feet    toward the willows. We'd piss ourselves on purpose just to feel the spirits of our warmth haloing out.  And once, two bald men on the footbridge, bowing    in the sky, stared down at us without a word. 410 0$aPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 4$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811.6 676 $a811/.6 700 $aCarelli$b Anthony, $01479731 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791560903321 996 $aCarnations$93695973 997 $aUNINA