Afterimage

by Benjamin Vogt

Overview

Afterimage moves from the southern to northern Plains and the eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through deep lakes and dark woods, and finally through transient moments framed by gardens: a butterfly nectaring on a coneflower, planting lavender with his future wife, or autumn leaves crashing against a morning window. In a rich array of forms and evocative imagery, the poems in Afterimage reach through prairie history until grass becomes skin, and light becomes shadow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936205578
Publisher:	Stephen F. Austin University Press
Publication date:	01/09/2013
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

BENJAMIN VOGT was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Minnesota. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A from The Ohio State University. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, ISLE, Sou’wester, Subtropics, and Verse Daily. Benjamin is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Indelible Marks (Pudding House) and Without Such Absence (Finishing Line Press).

Table of Contents

Three Photos That Define Me 15

I

Photograph, 1990 19

A Suburban Affair 20

Lotus Lake, Minnesota 22

Uncle With Landscape-Kansas, 1954 23

Boy's Quartet-1949 24

Wichita-1936 26

Mildred, Two Fords, and Her Friends At 16-1938 27

Rural Kiss-Oklahoma, 1944 28

High School Mixer-1956 29

Wedding-June 9, 1958 30

Photograph of Chevy Axle and Wheels-1953 31

Grandpa Anderson's-1959 32

Family Reunion-1962 33

My Father Visits the Homeplace 34

All That Was Said About the Korean War 35

Unemployed on a Summer Porch in Marysville, OH 36

Section 117, Plot 21 37

Portraiture At Blunks' Photography-Weatherford, OK, 1978 39

Indelible Marks 41

Weatherford, 1983 42

II

Itinerary 47

Pre-Elegy to My Mother 48

Rising Up From Mulberry Street 49

Faith 50

Great Grandmother-1950 51

Mothers Calming-1930 52

Fishing 53

Sundays-Corn, OK 54

Photo of Grandpa and 155 mm Howitzer-Korea, 1953 56

Waiting 57

Pilgrimage to Oaxaca, Mexico 58

The Whale 59

Still Life Refracted 60

July, Just Outside of Columbus 61

III

Loving Apparitions on High Street 65

A Geologist's Love 66

Compatible 67

Minneapolis 69

After a Night Class at Osu 70

Awaiting the Performance of Figaro-Palace Theater 71

An Evening Porch 72

Planting 73

Fire Pit 74

Florigraphy 75

French Formal Garden 76

English Romantic Garden 77

Victorian Garden 78

Japanese Garden 79

Coneflowers, August 80

Suddenly Autumn 81

Last Rites 82

Retirement-California, 1971 83