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Ember Days
The riveting poems of Ember Days begin with ritual and end with prayer as they tunnel through Wednesday's jammed boulevards, Friday's cash worthless, Saturday's prodigal feet. Plant disease incurable as colonialism inhabits nature's solace; funds for libraries disappear, abandoned houses compel secrets. Woolf's pen runs dry, Tesla holes up, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo. Soldiers in Baghdad, models transformed to artists, descendants of forced immigrants, survivors of hurricanes, witnesses for peace—these and other intercessory voices step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships.
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Ember Days
The riveting poems of Ember Days begin with ritual and end with prayer as they tunnel through Wednesday's jammed boulevards, Friday's cash worthless, Saturday's prodigal feet. Plant disease incurable as colonialism inhabits nature's solace; funds for libraries disappear, abandoned houses compel secrets. Woolf's pen runs dry, Tesla holes up, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo. Soldiers in Baghdad, models transformed to artists, descendants of forced immigrants, survivors of hurricanes, witnesses for peace—these and other intercessory voices step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships.
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Ember Days

Ember Days

by Mary Gilliland
Ember Days

Ember Days

by Mary Gilliland

Overview

The riveting poems of Ember Days begin with ritual and end with prayer as they tunnel through Wednesday's jammed boulevards, Friday's cash worthless, Saturday's prodigal feet. Plant disease incurable as colonialism inhabits nature's solace; funds for libraries disappear, abandoned houses compel secrets. Woolf's pen runs dry, Tesla holes up, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo. Soldiers in Baghdad, models transformed to artists, descendants of forced immigrants, survivors of hurricanes, witnesses for peace—these and other intercessory voices step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781949933192
Publisher: Codhill Press
Publication date: 04/15/2024
Pages: 92
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 4.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mary Gilliland is the author of The Devil's Fools, winner of the Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award, and The Ruined Walled Castle Garden. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents

Offering the Body: The Tibetan Practice of Chöd

WEDNESDAY's jammed boulevards

Infinitives

For When Nothing Is Remembered

This Is Buff, Shuffling

Outside The Tunnel Snow Is Melting

Excuse Me Hello Good Morning Good Night

Up With People

Kitchen Theater

As Though Finny Folk Would Flip

Slipping An Opinion Out Of Them Is Easy

All Those Creases

From The Window Of The Public Library

The Old Man Brought Home

National Insecurity

If God Were To Die

Feeding In Flight To Keep Hovering

Stealing Across The Silver

The Boss's Operation

There Is No Known Remedy For Scale

Is a transcendently beautiful place not to be ours?

Blossoms Burst Every-which Color

FRIDAY's cash worthless

Perhaps I Left The Car At Big Lots

Pat Euphoria

I Am The Blond You Wanted

Dry Dock

Compared To What Was Is Is Beautiful

1961 Springfield Ave

To The Darkhouse

The Great Bear in Winter

Tesla On A Leash

Irish Eye

Miracle Miles

Base of Parnassus

Pitch

Earthly Mishaps

SATURDAY's prodigal feet

Able

Continent Not Country

Desert Storm

Occupied

Not Yet Eager To Step Back From Public Life

Floats To The Sky

Turning In To The Windswept Garden

Tribe

For The Record

Traffic

Miracles When They Are Needed

The Entire Table Lifted Spoons

Crows Without A Bardo

Lincoln In Another Bardo

Swarming

Newbie

A Brush With Contumacy

Ember Days

Taken

A— uses more ordnance in a single campaign than

B— used in epochs of imperial rule
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