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Errings - (Poets Out Loud) by Peter Streckfus (Paperback)

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  • Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent--a lost leader, a remote love, a protege not yet born--and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next.
  • About the Author: Peter Streckfus is Professor of English at George Mason University.
  • 96 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: Poets Out Loud

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Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent--a lost leader, a remote love, a protégé not yet born--and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next.



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Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent--a lost leader, a remote love, a protege not yet born--and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next. "Videos of Fish," the opening sequence, speaks to the spirit of the poet's late father, adapting devices from Dante, Tibetan metaphysical
philosophy, and the biomechanics of the most primitive of vertebrate bodies, the fish, to envision paths of the disembodied soul. "How difficult it is to remain one person," the poet claims, echoing Czeslaw Milosz; in its progress between persons, the collection's regular shifts in mode and form include the purgatorian tercet,
the Japanese poetic diary, didactic verse, the Persian ghazal, the erasure, and the miniature.

THE READER
Experience among the waves allows one to limit the field.

Each year he grew another soul, oblong, slightly pointed at the end, like
an oar, its surface turned to the light.

Blacken now and lift your news into the air.



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A hard won, fully realized, wonderfully eccentric book. Rather than the anxiety of influence, Peter Streckfus vows for a complex, loving embrace of influence. Written at the intersection of the words of father and son, through the echoing world of the father's unpublished novel, Errings is an adventure--full of transport--in dream and in time. This is lovingly tender and smart work.-----Hank Lazer

. . . this book dazzles with its vulnerability, its wonder at the fluidity between animal and human, life and death, technology and the natural world - the world with its subtlety, holes, and open spaces.-- "--LA Review of Books"

Errings offers the best of both the bay side and ocean side of the street. Some of its poems, readers can immediately enter and understand, and others take a bit more archeological digging. Readers will find poems quiet as a bay sunset and as turbulent as Atlantic waves...If you find yourself somewhat lost at sea in this collection on first read, do not swim immediately back to shore. Tread water boldly and curiously with all senses alert and wide open. You will eventually find your way in the language and will be glad you took the extra time.-- "--Poet's Quarterly"

If you read and admired (as I did) Peter Streckfus's Yale-Younger The Cuckoo published a decade back, then it's a no brainer to cozy up to these new acts of collusion while spreading yourself out on green heather.-- "--Coldfront Magazine"

In his two collections, Peter Streckfus has made a lyric poetry of the highest order: spacious, luminous, contemplative, filled with strange voyages and miniature epics--he is a seer, a visionary, and yet how effortless this work seems; at its center, a stillness as ardent and searching as anything within memory.-- "--American Academy of Arts and Letters citation for the Rome Prize in Literature"

Peter Streckfus's crisp little book, is a delightfully idiosyncratic jewel-box of verbal surprises and minor epiphanies.---Matthew Ladd, --West Branch



About the Author




Peter Streckfus is Professor of English at George Mason University.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Poets Out Loud
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 96
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Peter Streckfus
Language: English
Street Date: March 3, 2014
TCIN: 93119956
UPC: 9780823257768
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-0908
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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