Thought That Nature

by Trey Moody, Cole Swensen (Introduction)

Overview

Thought That Nature identifies and captures moments when the border between personal consciousness and the otherness of the physical become porous. Ironically, it also allows Moody to measure the distance between consciousness and direct experience, even as he casts this gap in memorable speech. This debut collection offers the reader sensual delight and intellectual pursuit—a rare and bracing combination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936747726
Publisher:	Sarabande Books
Publication date:	02/15/2014
Series:	Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	350 KB

About the Author

Trey Moody is from San Antonio, earned an MFA from Texas State University, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently, How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square.
Trey Moody is from San Antonio, earned an MFA from Texas State University, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently, How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square.

Table of Contents

1

We Use Spoons Mostly
What We First Said
Climate Reply
A Weather [Why a. Why not…]
The Fallacy of Perfection
A Weather [Snow falls thick…]
Like Hearing For from That
Chatter
A Weather [Land absorbs sound…]
This Forest Isn’t a Room
A Feather Protruding from the Mouth
A Weather [While waiting…]
The Seating
A Weather [Said sand molds…]
Salina, Kansas
A Weather [Summer’s scalding echo…]
Dear Ghosts,

2: Lancaster County Notebook

The Good Life
Travelogue
To, But
Attention
In Crossing
By Hand
Act of Interpretation
Only What
Spring
Between Both
Nourishment
Distance
An Explanation
That Abstraction
Perfect Potential

3

Same-Day Resolution
A Weather [Since it is raining…]
Both
Everything Is Not for Everyone
A Weather [A certain sound…]
Yes, This Is May
A Weather [Heat: winter’s memory…]
Exercise in Patience
Backyard
A Weather [Color claims consistency…]
A Note on Silence
This Hemisphere of Leaves
A Weather
Praise
A Weather
Remembering the Original
Dear—