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Sojourners of the In-Between
Sojourners of the In-Between is a book about polarities, the mortality and sense of loss we feel as we grow older, and, on the other hand, the enlivening perceptions our years attune us to, what we might have missed in the full flush and energy of youth. In tones that are sometimes discursive and lyrical, humorous and elegiac, the poems suggest how large distances and abstractions might incline us more intensely to the materiality of things, their earthly make-up, even their dispersible elemental natures reshuffling into different guises. It’s a book of longing for what disappears and is lost, and a book of thankfulness for our human capacity to sometimes sense what we often can only imagine.
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Sojourners of the In-Between
Sojourners of the In-Between is a book about polarities, the mortality and sense of loss we feel as we grow older, and, on the other hand, the enlivening perceptions our years attune us to, what we might have missed in the full flush and energy of youth. In tones that are sometimes discursive and lyrical, humorous and elegiac, the poems suggest how large distances and abstractions might incline us more intensely to the materiality of things, their earthly make-up, even their dispersible elemental natures reshuffling into different guises. It’s a book of longing for what disappears and is lost, and a book of thankfulness for our human capacity to sometimes sense what we often can only imagine.
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Sojourners of the In-Between

Sojourners of the In-Between

by Gregory Djanikian
Sojourners of the In-Between

Sojourners of the In-Between

by Gregory Djanikian

Overview

Sojourners of the In-Between is a book about polarities, the mortality and sense of loss we feel as we grow older, and, on the other hand, the enlivening perceptions our years attune us to, what we might have missed in the full flush and energy of youth. In tones that are sometimes discursive and lyrical, humorous and elegiac, the poems suggest how large distances and abstractions might incline us more intensely to the materiality of things, their earthly make-up, even their dispersible elemental natures reshuffling into different guises. It’s a book of longing for what disappears and is lost, and a book of thankfulness for our human capacity to sometimes sense what we often can only imagine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780887486524
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date: 02/18/2020
Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
Edition description: 1
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Gregory Djanikian has published six previous collections of poems with Carnegie Mellon, most recently Dear Gravity. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have been featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was for many years the director of creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives outside Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

I Harbingers 13

What We Don't Know Won't Kill Us, Or It Will 15

Inside Man 17

Music Making 18

Banality 20

No Comment 22

My 90-Year-Old Mother Would Be an Alpinist 23

What Is a Cat But a Voice Among All the Other Voices 25

II Surprises 29

During Our Conversation I'd Like To Interrupt To Say 31

Poem with Clouds 33

And Another Thing 35

Let's Put an End to Grace 37

Nostalgia 39

Loose Ends 41

Lies 42

III Sometimes 47

Bats 48

Beauty 49

Body to Body 50

Startled from Sleep 51

Undoing Song 52

When It Is Tune 53

Homecoming 54

Stuff 55

All Those Whom I Have Loved 57

Other Lessons 58

IV A Moment Without Objects 61

Even During the Slightest Changes 62

Episode at the Neighbor's House 63

What I Was Thinking of During the Funeral Service, Douglas, Arizona 64

Just the Facts 65

Change 66

Why I'm Not in Cairo (Care-O), Illinois, Honking My Horn Like a Happy Tourist 68

Traveling into Deeper Country 69

V My Mother Considers Her Death During Cocktail Hour 75

Ghost Dog 77

Horse Heaven 78

A Roost of Turkeys 80

An Uneven Dozen 81

Reconstitutions, Dispersions 85

Bad News Day in Spring 86

What I Want 88

Thankfulness 89

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