University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
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University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series

Poems

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University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series

Poems

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A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song. " Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow."

In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to animate and inanimate figures such as woolly mammoths, star-nosed moles, cells, mylar balloons, and puzzle boxes. Her vivid poems obscure the line between what is literal and what is figurative. The result is alchemic and ethereal—each verse intricately layered with sharp observation as well as emotional and intellectual exploration and questioning.

Collectively, the poems draw significantly on Japanese culture and language in their imagery, with cultural nuances and implications embedded in words and expressions. They tend to be tied, not to subjects, but to ways of seeing and considering the world. Noll's lyrical voice reflects a curious and imaginative approach that results in tight poems, typically enjambed, which build together into a thoughtful collection. Her work offers ways of seeing and considering the world that exceed our lived experience, begging the reader to consider how far we are willing to go when faced with roadblocks, doubts, and uncertainties.

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2017
ISBN
9780813169095
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Part I
  8. Nocturne
  9. He Awakens Our Imagination, Our Desire to Transform
  10. A Polarized Scene
  11. Flavor Is the Price of Scarlet
  12. Questioning Diurnal Thinking
  13. The Sound of the Wind in Newport
  14. After the Storm Passes
  15. Some Questions about De-extinction
  16. Medusa Likens Her Gifts to Pseudoscience
  17. On the Violence of Doubt
  18. Pictures at an Exposition
  19. Haibun on the 650-lb Grand Piano Standing Upright in Biscayne Bay
  20. Pythia of the Fields
  21. Mysteries of the Sightline of the Ever-Virgin Mother
  22. When the Crickets Clash
  23. The Need for Ornamental Hermits Is on the Decline
  24. The Homeopath Is a Confectioner
  25. Unsung Elegies Offend
  26. As Winter Ends, We Marvel at the Sun
  27. Part II
  28. The Imaginary Space Where Parallel Lines Intersect
  29. Missed Connection
  30. Alternate Plumage
  31. First Impression as Enchiridion or Score
  32. Intricacies of Our Japanese Puzzle Box
  33. On Social Graces
  34. A Pagan Love Story
  35. The Heart Is No Shapeshifter
  36. Hymn
  37. In the Alternate Universe
  38. It's Hubris Makes Us Think Ourselves Large
  39. A World Made of String
  40. When the Difference Is Almost Nil
  41. Revision
  42. Two Kinds of Conception
  43. Creation Myth
  44. Lament, with a Line from Tennyson
  45. The Chosen
  46. A Cunning Ecosystem
  47. Corrosives
  48. On the Flood, Grown More Perilous
  49. Sometimes, We Think of Our Place in the World
  50. A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
  51. Wabi Sabi
  52. A SIngle Mulberry Tree and a Colony of SIlkworms Hanging Like Fruit
  53. Part III
  54. It's Not Glossolalia,
  55. Vantage
  56. What Returns from Sea
  57. Kintsugi
  58. What Bedtime Stories Become
  59. Divination
  60. We'll know to imagine the horse's snout, the gelatinous head of the octopus
  61. Resonance
  62. A Lesson in Sight
  63. Yugen
  64. Dawn
  65. Not Ruins: Reclamations
  66. Shibui
  67. Minka
  68. Understanding by Comparison
  69. Everything Beautiful Has a Name
  70. Material and Transcendent
  71. Acknowledgments
  72. Glossary
  73. Index of First Lines
  74. New Poetry and Prose Series