Knocking the Stars Senseless

by Clif Mason

Overview

Knocking the Stars Senseless is pitched in that restive space between sorrow and delight—a space both verdant and desolated, vertiginous and still. It is a space of attention and consequence, of recognition and reverence. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622882069
Publisher:	Stephen F. Austin University Press
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

CLIF MASON lives in Bellevue, Nebraska. His work has been awarded prizes by Writers’ Journal, Plainsongs, SPSM&H, the Midwest Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Rwanda, Africa.

Table of Contents

Double Narrative: This Waking Life 11

First Passage: The Bird with Indigo Whigs

Night Walk in the Republic 15

Day of the Dead 17

Ghost Music 18

Family Separation 21

The Sea Anemone Must Wed Lightning 22

Broken Bells 30

Fugue for the Sandy Hook Dead 31

Knocking the Stars Senseless 33

After the Political Speeches 35

Depression 36

Subdivision Eclogue 40

Insomnia 42

Second Passage: The Languages of Snails & Minerals

Kwik Shop Epiphany 45

Darkfall 46

Her Art 48

Skydiving & the Body 49

I Wore the Night Like a Roquelaure 51

Fugue: Assassins & the Dead 58

For García Lorca 59

Lorca's Gypsies at Auschwitz 61

The Sunlight Was Mortal 62

Ballad of the Witch 64

[In the undisclosed time before my death] 67

Housework 69

Third Passage: Night of Saws & Brocade & Stolen Dreams

Ocean of Incomparable light 73

When Dreams Become Porous 74

The Otter 77

Summer Nocturne 80

A Handful of Fireflies 82

Walking the Dog 85

Leaf Ballad 86

October Butterfly 87

The Old Crow 91

Every Awakening Was a Hunger 92

Winter Peaches 95

Thanksgiving Song 97

Notes 99

Acknowledgments 100