The Bright Invisible

by Michael Robins

Overview

The Bright Invisible, the fifth collection from Michael Robins, investigates domesticity and desire, reenactment and reclamation, as well as the promise of love alongside the certainty of absence. “ Sometimes the sun,” Robins writes, “ elbows the ordinary, archival cloud” and sometimes we “ close our eyes / & describe for each other what colors appear.” These poems are imbued with the “ soft collisions” of our dazzling existence, and they offer the possibility for even the darkest season to guide us once more into spring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947817456
Publisher:	Saturnalia Books
Publication date:	10/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	830 KB

About the Author

Michael Robins is the author of four previous collections, including In Memory of Brilliance & Value and People You May Know, both from Saturnalia Books. He lives in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Against the Abysm of Time 3

A Debt Like Any Other 6

The Day after Yesterday 8

On the Wrong Walden Pond 11

The Other Way Around 12

On the Hundredth Birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks 13

Galled Back 14

In Lovely Blue the Steeple Blossoms 15

Though We Should Love Once More 16

A Stone Endlessly in Flight 17

Of Winter Sparrows 18

The Twentieth Century 20

Someone Who Looked Just Like Me 21

In Praise of the Sleepless Plum 24

In Lieu of Flowers 25

An Elementary Survey of the Heavens 27

Outer Banks 42

Rite of Spring 44

On Negative Capability 45

Bewilderedness 47

Poem for the End of Winter 48

Against Long Island 51

During the Great Hummingbird Wars 52

The Bright Invisible 55

Good News Will Come 56

Diamond Shoals 66

The Kissing Idiot 67

On Learning of a Friend's Divorce 69

Mercy Killing 71

Bottled in Glass Where the Flavor Lasts 72

Cricket Hill 73

If the Rule You Follow Leads You Here 74

The Afterlife 77

About the Author 80