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Out of Bounds

:	Elizabeth Sullam
:	Out of Bounds
:	Digitalia
:	9780916379407
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:	CHF 48.10
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:	Kunst, Literatur
:	English

:	136
:	DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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A collection of sixty poems touching on the essence of existence: life, joy, sorrow, death.

“Here is poetry, with the heft that comes from a gift for catching in flight a particular person, a place, an event, an object.”-Michael G. Cooke, Yale University.

Entering a Sunken Garden (p. 48)

After a day-long airline strike in Milan,

hours of airport tedium in Heathrow,

lost luggage in New York, I find thé garden

waiting as a mother, arms sretched out,

a fragrant haven of herbs and flowers.

As I climb down five steps, bright colors billow,

floating in silence up from a sultry floor.

Late July cuts mosaics in salvia-edged

flowerbeds and tiled paths glow verdigris.

My quick moods slacken through smooth balms that snap

like mountain brackens and lead to a deep corner

where a wrought-iron bench rests, and a whole world

nests forever, where I sit and nearly

whelm in memories of other summers that

eddy in shadow, and thé garden stretches

and argues against my wanderlust.

Lights at Romsdal

Day. The bus glides along thé Trolls` Road

as through thé séquence of a dream.

Stream after stream, U-shaped valleys,

glacial lakes, ice-evened mountains, sated

in argentine light, hâve left delight

and turbulence fluid in my mind. Now,

rocks that bear thé names of pawns—King,

Bishop, Queen—seem beneficent deities

bathed in silver showering from heaven,

and I feel a pigmy in primai awe

before a game of beauty among old giants.

This is as one dreams beauty to be. The mind

aches to find new words to render thé changes

lily-light brings to air, mountains water,

but ail sensés succumb, alert yet dumbstruck

to a speechless siège, until my eyes blink pain.

There is too much brightness to bear

as if thé air, bare peaks and waterfalls

cried for it and an incontinent god

complied. Then thé unquiet star-mark

implanted in my heart sensés violence

and dark shadows striking through that light.

Night. In thé underground place

beyond thé root of my closed eyes,

ice-green-blue lake after ice-green-blue

lake, holding within their clear surface

thé mountains and sourceless lakes

of thé sky, flash and shake me awake.

Out of thé window I hang awhile between Bishop

and Queen, seeking thé propitious signs

men unconsciously plead for.

Even before my soûl reaches

for thé strength rocks seem to possess

against thé force of wind and ice,

silver lights that flow, pitiless,

below, catch and make me touch

thé cold frailty of stone, and I know

I am a watcher and a pawn in a lingering

game of passing things, in thé hand

of a grave player who ponders his next move.

	Table of Contents	14
	Foreword	12
	I. Landscape	18
	Lugano	20
	August4, 1983	22
	Beggar with Saint Vitus' Dance	24
	Caretaker	27
	Chiaroscuri	30
	Charterhouse of Maggiano	32
		32
		32
	34	32
	Eris	35
	Leaving	36
	You No Longer Sail the Boat	38
	Exile	40
	Memory-house	41
		41
		41
	44	41
	Stay	46
	Night Walks Unaware	48
	The Sap of Oleander Thickened in Your Veins	50
	II. Something Flowering	52
	In Sevilla	54
	Return to	54
	Return to	54
	56	54
	Clarity Over the Adriatic	57
	Middlehours, Gulf of Marseilles	58
	Avignon, 1984	59
	Exiles	60
	Landscape	62
	Evening-time Collage	63
	Entering a Sunken Garden	65
	Lights at Romsdal	66
		66
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	68	66
	III. Quarrel with Death	70
	Sunset	72
	Insomnia	73
	Transitions	74
	Night Over Gibraltar	76
	Ravenna, 1985	77
	Prison Night	78
	Telephone Call, 3 a.m	79
	Requiem	80
	As Rain the Flesh	81
	On the Shoulder of the Westward Wind	82
	Fish	83
	Long Distance	84
	Sure Thing	85
	What Will Happen to You?	86
	IV. Miserere	88
	Miserere	90
	Mine-field—1946	92
	Sing a Lullaby	94
	Orders: Don't Let Him See Your Shadow	95
	In Memory of RobertoTinti, Called Bob	96
	Out of Bounds	98
	War Village	100
	August Night in the Emilian Lowlands	102
	This Sunday Long Ago	104
	Po Valley	106
	Auschwitz Revisited	108
	Diaspora for John Pauker	110
	Song of a Mother to Her Child	111
	Frankfurt am Main	113
	V. At the Edge of the Land	118
	Rain	120
	Spring 1982	121
	Confluence	122
	I Shall Be There	124
	Black Cemetery in Georgetown	126
	Melpomene: the Singing One	128
	Late Afternoon	129
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	133	129