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Advancing from his first volume, The Farther Shore, which explored instances of discovery and rites of passage, Paul Kane's new collection of poems, Drowned Lands, describes a world flooded with memory and apprehension. This is poetry drawn from the everyday, even as it seeks the high ground of inspiration and eloquence. The result is a book of diverse forms and various subjects: there are meditative lyrics, as in "Time Was"; lively encounters, "An Old Flame in Savonarola's Cell"; poignant narratives, "In the ...
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Advancing from his first volume, The Farther Shore, which explored instances of discovery and rites of passage, Paul Kane's new collection of poems, Drowned Lands, describes a world flooded with memory and apprehension. This is poetry drawn from the everyday, even as it seeks the high ground of inspiration and eloquence. The result is a book of diverse forms and various subjects: there are meditative lyrics, as in "Time Was"; lively encounters, "An Old Flame in Savonarola's Cell"; poignant narratives, "In the Penal Colony"; satiric verses, "After Martial"; and visionary utterances, "The Repentant Magdalen." At times, a historical imagination is at work, taking us back to Coptic Egypt, Renaissance Italy, or colonial America. Kane's poems range widely, from European cities to the Australian bush, from metropolitan New York to the deserts of the American Southwest. But whatever their locale, these poems distill experience into crucial moments of knowing, when we come alive to the facts of our existence as revealed in the alterations between solitude and love, grief and joy, incapacity and insight.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781570033407
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Publication date: 12/28/2000
  • Series: James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series
  • Pages: 74
  • Product dimensions: 5.72 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.51 (d)

Table of Contents

A Note on Paul Kane
The Mood of Glass 3
Cross Lots 4
Acceptance 6
An Old Flame in Savonarola's Cell 7
Framing 9
By the Hudson 10
Just after the Holidays 11
Shadows 12
The Cipher 13
A Bouquet for Elizabeth 14
Driving East 15
Cats at the Protestant Cemetery 16
Epicurean 18
Mona 19
Intimations 20
Prelude 21
Under the Summer Canopy 22
Time Was 23
Drowned Lands 27
At Witter Bynner's House 32
Wissenschaftslehre 33
Burning the Flag 34
War Crimes 35
After Martial 36
Incident in the Barnyard 38
Letter of the Prophet Mohammed 39
Eurydice 42
Frost, at Midnight 43
Mere Islands 45
Flight from the Present 47
Red Death 48
Clasp 50
Variations on a Stanza by Longfellow 51
Outback before Dawn 55
In the Penal Colony 57
On the Murray 58
Kakadu Memory 59
Under the Iron Rainbow 60
Concedo Nulli 61
At the Terminus 62
Disciples Asleep at Gethsemane 64
Iconoclastics 66
Preaching the Cross 69
Q & A 71
The Repentant Magdalen 73
Lines Left at Shiprock 74
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  • Posted September 18, 2012

    By the Windfall Light

    Paul Kane is one of America's great, underrated poets, and his second volume of poetry, Drowned Lands, exemplifies his talent and vision. With this collection of some 47 poems, Paul Kane shows us what a good poet can accomplish. Through his lens, we the beauty of the Hudson Valley, the islands of the South Pacific, the gothic haunts of Florence, and the effulgent glow of Australian vistas, like that of the Murray River. Poems like "On the Murray" and "Mere Islands" have a more epic, expansive scope, while other poems like "War Crimes," and "Just After the Holidays" are more disarmingly direct and intimate in tone.

    He's often been compared to Robert Frost and Emerson, though Paul Kane's verse and vision is entirely his own. Throughout many of the poems, a sense of mystery remains. Kane is careful to make us aware that there is a great deal we cannot know about the world we're seeing and sensing. We can only experience it. It's been said that poetry is a record of the life around us and within us, and Drowned Lands exemplifies this beautifully.

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