All I Feel Is Rivers
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All I Feel Is Rivers

Dervish Essays

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All I Feel Is Rivers

Dervish Essays

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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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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781496221025
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. How Precious Still
  9. Even Then
  10. All the Rivers of My Days
  11. Yes
  12. Soul Ink
  13. Water Is My Name
  14. Other Darks
  15. O After O
  16. Bell
  17. To Beg Mercy of a Shadow
  18. I Who Wake Beside You
  19. Ordering a Book of Poems
  20. Dear Syllables
  21. Fish Me
  22. Let a Poem
  23. Plea
  24. Because of What My Brother Told Me
  25. Any Word
  26. Bright Windowsill the Wondering
  27. Another Kind of Waking
  28. Dovelike
  29. Essay Transparent Almost to Midnight
  30. The Woman in Me
  31. Even If
  32. Dithyramb
  33. Essay as the World’s Worst Jeweler
  34. Maybe Fall to My Knees
  35. I Write with the River
  36. How Shall I Owl the Sound
  37. Bring the River
  38. Pen
  39. The Waft-Away World
  40. Light Upon Lightly
  41. A Kind of Inner Russia
  42. Because There Are Ghosts
  43. Come Earthward
  44. Essay by the Black Sea
  45. Gobsmack Essay
  46. Ink of River
  47. Keeper Bees
  48. Letter to Neruda
  49. Mother Forever
  50. Play
  51. Read to You
  52. Somewhere a Siren
  53. Some Kind of Holiness
  54. When Water This Earth
  55. Tell Me Flower
  56. The Most Woke
  57. So Wild Beloved
  58. Gaze of a Child
  59. All I Feel Is Rivers
  60. God-Husks
  61. Becoming Less So
  62. About Robert Vivian