Recuperating LACUNAE -- I. THEORIA: Ain't no meta. Ain't no nevamind. -- Times' favor, etc. -- Appearances -- Good will, Good fortune -- Salish Sea winter -- Snoqualmie still life -- Old man's vision -- Approaching that Lacuna -- Mosaic -- Lacunae -- Absent gods -- Prospect, in winter -- Kenosis [Kevoon] -- The end of suffering -- II. MY COMEDY: AporÍa [Aropia] -- Coracle -- My comedy: Slow pilgrim -- H Oeoxoyia: God Talk -- The presence -- Adiáphora [Adiaqopa], again -- Mediocrity -- Remembering "The death of Ivan Ilyich" and that man's late recovery -- An opening, A glimpse -- This cedar thicket my acquittal -- Endless expanse within -- A reading of apparent things -- For martyras, who fell asleep at 42, in 2015 -- Change your life -- III. NO TRANSCENDENCE: No transcendence -- Butter -- Clean kitchen -- Corner café, full color -- A school of embodied poetics -- Erotikos Logas, Again -- Epistle to the Ostensible Church -- What to make of this, Wat to make -- Anecdote of the "Poem" devolved to anecdote -- Minor treatise: THE POETIC -- Poems for my children and their children -- Implicative Lacunae -- Late murmur -- Télos [Texos] -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"Poems that endeavor to contain the uncontainable: just as the Theotokos whose womb contained the uncontainable."-- Provided by publisher. "Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our "glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space." This is the poet's continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or--in the case of the Theotokos--a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes"-- Publisher's website.
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