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Overview
Lacunae, Daniel Nadler’s debut collection, is an exercise in poetics of vital import. In it, Nadler imagines himself into those moments of unintelligibility—blank spaces in time—where constraint and expansion coincide. When faced with such ellipses, like where a few decisive hieroglyphs have worn off a wall, he infers and reconstructs the flora, fauna, and pleasures of an ancient world.
“Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water / sleep bends me toward my lover / and I cannot drink from her”: Nadler’s is a project of constant negotiation, one that bends his poems into new shapes. He attends to an impulse of restoration and conservation, in turn. From this tension arises verse of searing simplicity and clarity of vision, imbued with that trembling quality of new life: “luminous and half-naked.” Lacunae, deeply felt and gnomically wise, dares to pave a poetic landscape all its own, the work of a remarkable new poet with enormous ambition and ability.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374537067 |
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| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date: | 07/25/2017 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d) |
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Table of Contents
You hear the sun in the morning 3
Your lips are as full as a wound 4
A body looks like an unopened bell 5
Your arms are as long as sand Falling from a cracked fist 6
You are as happy as a waterwheel 7
My lips are shy 8
Ripening spots of white starlight onto our cold blue sphere 9
The moon has gone farming at night 10
The strawberry she held between her teeth 11
I would twist my arms like coral 12
I want to boast 13
I tugged at your laughter like a rope 14
A spider cannot be used as bait 15
The wave has come to collect the little ports on the coast 16
I hold your hips 17
Between kisses the air is quiet 18
Even your words will not leave you 19
On your back you sleep as if your wings were planted in the sand 20
To the bird an island is not as bright as a star 21
The ground of the forest has become muddy in the rain 22
Love 23
This girl's words are as ordered 24
The earth was fruit, and stars, and motion 25
You disappear beside me in a forest. Walking 26
Color is sleeping in some birds 27
What will you do with these pearls he has given you? 28
She undressed in the deep shadows of the garden she loved 29
Apart from you I am as lost 30
When the sun is wide and drying and filed 31
The season is yet unlit 35
A glacier glows pink 36
House, floating under moon 37
On maps the sea carries color 38
Birds aglow in yellow do not carry ashes 39
The star has given me a body 40
Soil guards the sleep 41
Thick in the forest masks are hung in rows: grinning 42
The sun began eating 43
By the evening your hair is curled 44
Approach shadows like shallow water 45
When you slipped off your dress, orders streamed from your lips 46
The pigment of crushed petals 47
I embraced you by mistake 48
Cooking under some trees 49
Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water 50
I guarded your sleep like a young cat 51
If you stand there in the open rain 52
Your head seems lower in this light 53
The still 54
Fresh banana haves can carry whole fish 55
The afternoon is a fugitive 56
You curse the rain outside your window, believing 57
And if a bird descended on your shoulder 58
Your hair is suspended in motion 59
Like wooden planks from a broken ship 60
Down the river the creatures in the basin prepare 63
The tree collapsed on itself 64
The growing fingers of clouds meet 65
Daughter, along the rim of what you were knitting 66
Why is the forest canopy strung with rope? 67
The bird is in the center of the sun 68
After two days I was luminous and half-naked 69
The animals were slowly digging in the mud, and were frightened 70
We came across a hunter disguised as a bird 71
The dancing girl has veiled her body 72
This slim body of yours 73
A tear was painted on your cheek 74
At the bottom of the pond in your heart 75
If I can deceive this girl then let me 76
You tell me I have pine needles for bedding 77
They do not want to be noticed 78
A river has gotten away from you Pools 79
Only this much do I know 80
On your body I left behind 81
Why have my friends spoken of him 82
Your thin body, encased in my warmth 83
Brother 84
What is this belt made of that clasps your dress to your waist? 85
Are you the same girl who sheltered the sun in her hair 86
Who are you going to meet tonight 87
The rain kisses my face 88
A lamb blinking over a patch of earth 89
My tigers have left me 90
The man who grows flowers in a field 91
Hair covered a face 92
Clay pots, shaped from the inside 93
The red earth changes color when a stream runs over it 94
Your husband is stretched out on the ground 95
The girl cries from the number of fingers and toes 96
Brother, don't look away when she glances at you 97
Even as you look at her 98
As the village goes up 99
His limbs covered in sweat, and ash 100
Sister, when you look at him 101
A sand dune came toward us like a sailing ship 102
When the strange rain singed the outline of a lake into the sand 103
I have never seen improvements to the flesh. If a man should steal, let it be sugarcane 104
Islands are pronounced by the ocean without bubbles 105
Leave me a stone 106
And so 107
Acknowledgments 111