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Author:

Ronk, Martha Clare

Title:

Partially kept / Martha Ronk

Publisher:

Nightboat Books ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

67 p. ; 21 cm

Subject:

American poetry--Women authors--21st century

Notes:

Poems Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

The light on the water Or -- By parallaxis -- Sound -- The quincunx -- Things observable -- My partial tongue -- The particular state wherein you reside -- Grafting -- The dtalks of mint -- Alpines -- The fold -- Restless -- Refusal -- Downpour -- The bittern -- Incision -- Drowning -- Indistinguishable -- Position -- Manifest -- Colour -- Tendrils -- Simple -- The -- Part two, No sky: Relics -- Needful -- A slight thing -- A preconceived idea -- West wind -- Aporia -- A photograph of a side window -- Reading & writing & stealing -- After visiting for a time it is time to go (with umbrella) -- No sky -- Elegy -- Reading her thinking -- Incomplete form -- Interpretation -- Events -- An exceptional reality -- Part three, August : Remembrance -- Re-reading -- August -- The ardor -- Let rhetoric -- Dangling modifier -- Orlando -- With color -- A sickly Polaroid -- Attachments -- The light on the water

Summary:

"In Partially Kept, Ronk's elegiac and lyrical poetry responds to a world marked by transience and loss. Quotations by 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne highlight historical shifts in language, creating intertextual poems that consider the botanical world, the art of photography, and philosophy. Ronk's attention to rhetoric and representation speak to the shifting temporality between one thing and another, between one mind and another"--Publisher's website

ISBN:

1937658015 (pbk.)
9781937658014 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)760976036

Locations:

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)