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This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read-one arrives slightly out of breath. These poems convey a metaphysicalmeaning as well as a bodily intimacy. They are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking.The Early History of PhotographyThe first photographer's sister spent the summerwatching the leaf-imprints disappear.Just like life, she wrote to him, but a little slower;like a chemical recipe for gratitude.Shhh, the first photographer said, hoveringover the silver salts arrayed like listening devices.Don't let the sun know what we're doing.This is a god we can capture and he'll never know it,never miss these little fistfuls of glitter, dumbed down.Dear sister, you must know the miracle is in the stoppage.Motion is cheap and plentiful; standing still is what costs and costs.Jean Gallagher is Associate Professor of English at Polytechnic University in New York City. She is the author of The World Wars Through the Female Gaze.To read a sample of Jean Gallagher's poetry, visit www.poetsoutloud.com
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This Minute
This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read-one arrives slightly out of breath. These poems convey a metaphysicalmeaning as well as a bodily intimacy. They are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking.The Early History of PhotographyThe first photographer's sister spent the summerwatching the leaf-imprints disappear.Just like life, she wrote to him, but a little slower;like a chemical recipe for gratitude.Shhh, the first photographer said, hoveringover the silver salts arrayed like listening devices.Don't let the sun know what we're doing.This is a god we can capture and he'll never know it,never miss these little fistfuls of glitter, dumbed down.Dear sister, you must know the miracle is in the stoppage.Motion is cheap and plentiful; standing still is what costs and costs.Jean Gallagher is Associate Professor of English at Polytechnic University in New York City. She is the author of The World Wars Through the Female Gaze.To read a sample of Jean Gallagher's poetry, visit www.poetsoutloud.com
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This Minute

This Minute

by Jean Gallagher
This Minute

This Minute

by Jean Gallagher

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This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read-one arrives slightly out of breath. These poems convey a metaphysicalmeaning as well as a bodily intimacy. They are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking.The Early History of PhotographyThe first photographer's sister spent the summerwatching the leaf-imprints disappear.Just like life, she wrote to him, but a little slower;like a chemical recipe for gratitude.Shhh, the first photographer said, hoveringover the silver salts arrayed like listening devices.Don't let the sun know what we're doing.This is a god we can capture and he'll never know it,never miss these little fistfuls of glitter, dumbed down.Dear sister, you must know the miracle is in the stoppage.Motion is cheap and plentiful; standing still is what costs and costs.Jean Gallagher is Associate Professor of English at Polytechnic University in New York City. She is the author of The World Wars Through the Female Gaze.To read a sample of Jean Gallagher's poetry, visit www.poetsoutloud.com

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823225460
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2005
Series: Poets Out Loud
Edition description: 2
Pages: 82
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean Gallagher received the FIELD Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her book, Stubborn, (forthcoming Spring 2006). She is an associate professor of English at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, and she lives with her husband in New York City.
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