The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit: Poems

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If "We Change and Change / But Don't Change Back?"

Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift "billowing, unattached," and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon's head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves. Ungainly piano notes pour from a window and wake unexpected wonder in a lost walker. A forest grows inside a box that once held a father's new pair of shoes. Skylab slips from its watchful orbit and careens toward Earth. A familiar chair once owned by a now absent family appears in a field of wild parsnips. Meditative and richly imaginative, these poems cast and recast the self and its relation to other selves, and to memory, history, power, and the natural world.

Author: Corey Marks
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780822967156
ISBN10: 0822967154
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General