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Brian Teare
Sight Map
Poems
$45.00, £26.95 hardcover
978-0-520-25875-4
NYP--Due 3/09
$16.95, £9.95 paperback
978-0-520-25876-1
NYP--Due 3/09
96 pages, 6 x 8 inches,
March 2009, Available worldwide
Categories: Poetry; Literary Studies; American Studies
March 2009, Available worldwide
Categories: Poetry; Literary Studies; American Studies
"Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear. No one is safe in any of these poems, in any sense of the word. What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh."—D. A. Powell, author of Tea and Lunch
"Teare's dark and steamy narratives maintain their dangerous balance, in part because of language that offsets lushness with bald fact."—Susan Settlemyre Williams, author of Possession
"Formally daring, capacious in eye and mind, these poems are splendid and dirty prayers, fierce accomplishments in our disorienting times."—Rick Barot, author of Want
"These poems reach with urgency and passion toward a knowledge both impossible and necessary—and therein lies their deep humanness."—Jane Mead, author of The Usable Field
"The fractured world of these poems nurtures a mystery so compelling that it makes 'each mind to itself creation come crawling / matter out of nothing.'"—Elizabeth Robinson, author of The Orphan and Its Relations
"Teare's dark and steamy narratives maintain their dangerous balance, in part because of language that offsets lushness with bald fact."—Susan Settlemyre Williams, author of Possession
"Formally daring, capacious in eye and mind, these poems are splendid and dirty prayers, fierce accomplishments in our disorienting times."—Rick Barot, author of Want
"These poems reach with urgency and passion toward a knowledge both impossible and necessary—and therein lies their deep humanness."—Jane Mead, author of The Usable Field
"The fractured world of these poems nurtures a mystery so compelling that it makes 'each mind to itself creation come crawling / matter out of nothing.'"—Elizabeth Robinson, author of The Orphan and Its Relations
In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a postconfessional candor to embody the "open field" tradition of such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. Teare provides us with poems that insist on the simultaneous physical embodiment of tactile pleasure—that which is found in the textures of thought and language—as well as the action of syntax. Partly informed by an ecological imagination that leads him back to Emerson and Thoreau, Teare's method and fragmented style are nevertheless up to the moment. Remarkable in its range, Sight Map serves at once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim's gnostic progress, an improvised field guide, and a postmodern "pillowbook," recording the erotic conflation of lover and beloved, deity and doubter.
40:57:54 N/76:54L35 W
Emerson Susquehanna
To Be Two
Lent Prayer
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
To Take the House out of Doors
42:53:6 N/71:57:17 W
Embodiment
Morphology
Theory of Trees
Spirit Photograph
The Word from His Mouth, It Is Perfect
Long After Hopkins
Pilgrim
The ravine a canoe,
Errant.
A type of spine.
Ash, birch, beech, pine.
Errant : Reply.
As being is to begin.
West to dust.
To drag about, to torment, to wallow,
Devotion,
37:48:9 N/122:15:4 W
Sanctuary, Its Root Sanctus
Thoreau Etude
Genius Loci
Abandoned Palinode for the Twenty Suitors of June
An Essay to End Pleasure
Acknowledgments
Notes
Emerson Susquehanna
To Be Two
Lent Prayer
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
To Take the House out of Doors
42:53:6 N/71:57:17 W
Embodiment
Morphology
Theory of Trees
Spirit Photograph
The Word from His Mouth, It Is Perfect
Long After Hopkins
Pilgrim
The ravine a canoe,
Errant.
A type of spine.
Ash, birch, beech, pine.
Errant : Reply.
As being is to begin.
West to dust.
To drag about, to torment, to wallow,
Devotion,
37:48:9 N/122:15:4 W
Sanctuary, Its Root Sanctus
Thoreau Etude
Genius Loci
Abandoned Palinode for the Twenty Suitors of June
An Essay to End Pleasure
Acknowledgments
Notes