Blue Jay and Found Objects

Carmine Giordano

Description

On the front jacket of this volume is a photograph I took at a museum ecology exhibit of a Blue Jay sculpted by “trash artist” artist Thomas Deininger from the collected flotsam and jetsam of the sea: pieces of iron, mesh, wood, plastic, and other cast-away items from many water ways — items which appear close-up on the back cover. The artist’s work is a literal reflection of the way the ragtag emotional and physical pieces of a life may also be compiled and wonderfully transformed through the language of poetry: the way in this collection one’s struggle with religious guilt is portrayed as an all-night “wrastle” with an angel; the way the arc of one’s life is mirrored in the bud and blossom of potted amaryllis bulbs; the way heaven might be traded in another poem for a slice of pizza; the way one’s troubling thoughts need to be extracted on another page with the help of an exorcist.

Sujets

• Object
• Blue Jay
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 07 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669858447
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Blue Jay and Found Objects
Collected Poems 2022
Carmine Giordano

Copyright © 2023 by Carmine Giordano.
 
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022922481
ISBN:
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978-1-6698-5843-0

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978-1-6698-5842-3

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978-1-6698-5844-7
 
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Rev. date: 12/06/2022
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
1.Blue Jay and Found Objects
2.The High Towers
3.Landing Places
4.Caprese
5.Exorcism
6.A.M.
7.Poem
8.In the Light of Day
9.Psalm 1
10.On the Beautyrest
11.Landscaping
12.Town Hall
13.Encounter
14.Adam’s Apple
15.Coordinating Colors
16.How It Is
17.After All This
18.The Wrastle
19.Chag Samaeach
20.The Arms of Kalika
21.String
22.The Poetry of Little Things
23.Black on White
24.Outage
25.Spring
26.Your Choice
27.Colorado Massacre
28.How It Happens
29.Today’s Special
30.For Becky
31.And Ever
32.The Devil You Know
33.In Time
34.Chariot
35.Floyd
36.The Face of Spring
37.Rockabye Baby
38.Backyard Alleluia
39.Nothing Good About This Friday
40.April’s Fool
41.After the storm
42.Brooklyn Binge
43.Lullaby
44.Prairie Glossolalia
45.Ronnie
46.Stasis
47.American Empress: On the Columbia
48.Flores por Uvalde
49.Italian
50.Psalm 2
51.Father’s Day
52.Seeding
53.East of Eden
54.Un’ode alla Caprese di Ronnie
55.Ode to Ronnie’s Caprese
56.Weeds
57.Roe vs Wade
58.On Our Forty-ninth Anniversary:
59.Cosmos
60.Phylum
61.In Particular
62.The Day It Was
63.Ambassador
64.Interior Passage
65.On Reading Sartre
66.Retrospect
67.Aubade
68.In Medias Res
69.Laudate
70.At Sea
71.Album
72.Super Slide
73.Pearl
74.Finding the Words
75.House Call
76.It
77.By the Waters
78.Elegy
79.Psalm 3
80.Pulse
81.Elizabeth
82.Just This
83.La Shanah Tova
84.Hurricane
85.Resurrection
86.Of Bread and Milk and Roses
87.Off Kilter
88.Rachmones
89.Yahrzeit
90.Goodbye Columbus
91.Just Now
92.Sans You
93.Weed
94.Remembering Frank
95.Recurring Question
96.Border Wall
97.Una Faccia Una Razza
98.The Air You Breathe — The Ground You Walk On
99.Decisions at the Border
100.Eve of All Hallows
101.Commandment
102.Alligator
103.Magnolia
104.Taj
105.On the Way
106.Switching Light
107.On Ronnie’s Birthday
108.The Starry Night
109.Ride
110.Dinner and a Movie
111.On Pledging Allegiance
112.Mickey Mouse
113.Insurrection
114.Summer
115.Genesis
116.Island
117.Prescription
118.Poetry
119.Certificates of Achievement
120.The Big Picture
121.Circus Mirrors
122.A Different Moon
123.Carpe
124.Dog
125.The Order of Things
126.This Old House
127.Dwelling Place
128.Snowbirding Brooklyn
129.Strap
130.Food Bazaar
131.Plaque
132.On Fire Island
133.Ice Cream
134.Among Them
135.Roses Violets and Blue
136.Pillow Talk
137.Accident
138.Pie
139.Olympiad
140.Brooklyn: Garden Afternoon
141.Vermont: Summer Rental
142.Brave New World
143.Summa Theologica
144.Tabula Rasa
145.Élan
146.Painkillers
147.Heaven
148.Tuna Theophany
149.9/11
150.Dawn’s Early Light
151.Portrait in a Garden
152.Points of Light
153.Rose
154.Loving the Sopranos
155.Bach in Florida
156.After a great poem
157.East of Eden
158.Propagating Flowers
159.La Comédie Humaine
160.Home Schooling
161.Morning Song
162.Garden
163.All Saints Day
164.Here and Now
165.Writer’s Block
166.Song
167.Agapanthus
168.It’s Beginning to Look Like X—mas
169.Caste
170.God Speed
171.Bodhi
172.Quotidian
173.The Minister of Creation
174.Morning Plato
175.Suicide Hotline
176.Strange Gods
177.Psalm 4
178.Messiah
179.Reverie
180.Sienna
181.The Perils of Poetry
182.Yard Work
183.Magnolia
184.Catching COVID
185.Psalm 5
186.Swan Song
187.Weed Whacking
188.Paean for a Small Creature
189.As Is
190.Sanctum Sanctorum
191.You
192.Koan for a Dear One
193.What Is Given
194.Traffic Stop
195.Interviewing the Exorcist
196.On Robinson Crusoe
197.A Noble Peace Prize
198.Alphabet
199.Go Forth
200.Pain
201.On the Way
202.At Random
203.Switching to Light
204.Lost in Translation
205.On Ronnie’s Birth Day
206.Ennui
207.Nagasaki
208.Other
209.Reveille
210.The Trick Is
211.The Stary Night
212.Ride
213.Theophany 101
214.Jam
215.Dinner and a Movie
216.Naomi
217.On Pledging Allegiance
218.Telling Truth
219.Lemon Yellow
220.A Spoonful of Sugar
221.Memorial for Lennon
222.Summer
223.Place
224.Mine
225.Fault Lines
226.Genesis
227.Arrival
228.Oracle
229.More Better Best
230.Island
231.Diagnostic
232.On Following Keats
233.Luncheon Party
234.Poetry
235.In Ecstasy
236.Taming Tabby
237.Prescription
238.Analphabet
239.Poetry
240.In the Fitting Room
241.Father’s Day
242.The Egg and I
243.The Real Presence
244.Nutshell
245.Reasons to Dance
246.Cicada
247.On a Far Planet
248.Kneading Poetry
249.Modern Life
250.Making Sense
251.My Father Over and Over Again
252.Before the Ark
253.Nightmare
254.Ur-colors
255.Kaleidoscope
256.Translating Horace
257.Rachmones
258.The Reason Why
259.The Original Sin
260.Gravity
261.A Snowbird at Yankee Stadium
262.Revelation
263.Then and There
264.Dumbshow
265.Game Theory
266.Estrellita
267.Those Who Mourn
268.Magi
269.Will and Testament
270.Poetaster
271.Journey
272.Brooklyn Anymore
273.Dwelling Place
274.Point and Purpose
275.OUT of Eden
276.Pilgrims’ Pride
277.Loaded Gun
278.Be a stone
279.Self Portrait in Alphabet Letters
280.Closing Time
281.Poetry Reading
282.Some Roses for Janet
283.The Music of the Spheres
284.Epitaph
285.Coxcomb
286.Climate Change
287.Rose
288.Sunday Sermon
289.Joker
290.Auction
291.Redemption
292.Bottom Line
293.The Singularity
294.Reading at the Residence
295.Bin
296.Sister
297.World Cup
298.Upper East Side
299.Strap
300.The Food Bazaar
301.On Fire Isalnd
302.Hot Dog
303.House Gift
304.Monnglow
305.The Emperor of Ice Cream
306.Among Them
307.Gyre
308.Visiting Parnassus
309.Roses Violets and Blue
310.Epiphany
311.The Way It Happens
312.Hazmat
313.Gap
314.Morning’s Muses
315.Putdown
316.Question
317.Elegiaque
318.On Gilligan’s Island
319.Laundry List
320.Of Point and Purpose
321.The Reason Why
322.Linear Translations
323.Keyboard
324.Élan
325.Diary
326.Again
327.At Sea
328.Ad Astra
329.Jumping Jacks
330.Painkillers
331.Revelation
332.By Starlight
333.Afterlife
334.When I Have Fears to Cease to Be
335.In the Total Scheme
336.Theophany
337.The Whole Truth and Nothing But
338.Robinson Crusoe
339.Triage
340.Hard Questions
341.Pest Control
342.Glacier
343.Spleen
344.The Traffic Jam
345.Spellunking
346.On Serengeti
347.Vase
348.Bits and Pieces
349.Iliad
350.Loving the Sopranos
351.The Theory of Relativity
352.Factory Reset
353.There’s Always Something
354.CPA
355.Bach in Florida
356.Autopsy
357.Poet
358.Unstacking the Dishwasher: Reverie
359.The Twelfth of Never
360.Persona
361.Heaven
362.Adam’s Rib
363.Ars Poetica
364.In the Moment
365.Tuna Theophany
366.Treatise
367.9/11
368.Weed
369.Dawn’s Early Light
370.Mystic
371.Ravage
372.Museo
373.Of a Life
374.Alpha Beta Gamma
375.Numbers People
376.Oylmpiad
377.Axis
378.Shekinah
379.Martyrology
380.On Modern Poetry
381.Pre