All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took up a deep study of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the religious order that performs the now-famous dervish dance. Vivian's fascination seeped into his writing, and his newly conceived dervish essays reflect the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of the ritual dance with wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling. Utterly fearless in their passionate avowals of life's many manifestations, these essays showcase the surprising connectivity between the sacred and profane, uncovered by associative drifting. Vivian's essays take on grief and loss, the natural world and climate, spirituality and ecstasy, all while pushing the boundaries of what prose can do.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How Precious Still
- Even Then
- All the Rivers of My Days
- Yes
- Soul Ink
- Water Is My Name
- Other Darks
- O After O
- Bell
- To Beg Mercy of a Shadow
- I Who Wake Beside You
- Ordering a Book of Poems
- Dear Syllables
- Fish Me
- Let a Poem
- Plea
- Because of What My Brother Told Me
- Any Word
- Bright Windowsill the Wondering
- Another Kind of Waking
- Dovelike
- Essay Transparent Almost to Midnight
- The Woman in Me
- Even If
- Dithyramb
- Essay as the World’s Worst Jeweler
- Maybe Fall to My Knees
- I Write with the River
- How Shall I Owl the Sound
- Bring the River
- Pen
- The Waft-Away World
- Light Upon Lightly
- A Kind of Inner Russia
- Because There Are Ghosts
- Come Earthward
- Essay by the Black Sea
- Gobsmack Essay
- Ink of River
- Keeper Bees
- Letter to Neruda
- Mother Forever
- Play
- Read to You
- Somewhere a Siren
- Some Kind of Holiness
- When Water This Earth
- Tell Me Flower
- The Most Woke
- So Wild Beloved
- Gaze of a Child
- All I Feel Is Rivers
- God-Husks
- Becoming Less So
- About Robert Vivian
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