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Some of the poems, which slide in and out of prose, appear to incorporate quotations from the brace of authors thanked in small-print italics below the poems. That said, nonblack artists and thinkers feature in All That Beauty too. Leonard, for example, and the Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden. The body is rigid. The body is the whole grid. The body is good riddance. The body is rid and not under your control. Expository where Moten is mimetic and exemplary, yet no less concerned with how to chart a way—if not a narrative—through the world, Wave Archive explains what seizures are and what they do to the brain; some sections are indexes a device also used, inter alia, by Ander Monson and Rebecca Lindenberg.

Several passages show Russo sculpting a pillow, boxing it up, then setting it out to sea:. You would like to number your feelings… The emotional archive is your only boat. Epilepsy is like being put in a box and cast on a turbulent ocean, whose waves are brainwaves. Adrift on the sea of herself, Russo must figure out how to stay afloat, and whether she can get back to terra firma.

Complicating matters further is that, unlike a real sea voyager, an epileptic may find herself transported at any time:.

But the book as a whole is hardly a mystic grimoire. At times it feels more like a medical memoir. You often end up tired, diluted, finished. Just be finished with me. Just be finished. Mixed genres have rarely sounded so good, or described an idiosyncratic life so well. Her favorite figures themselves suggest protection and controls: snails, spiderwebs, spiders arachnophobes beware. Post trauma, blood collects between the dura and arachnoid maters , memory. For Moffett, though, human beings may be all too comprehensible, too akin to machines.

All writers end up whatever else they do representing their historical moment. I started out looking like her; she cut my hair like hers; my face was like hers. And then I underwent a phase where I appeared as someone else. That phase was temporary, too, as is the memory of teenage sociability, the bus-ride game in which. Nor the key was never to be tricked into giving an answer; the trick was to parry with questions.

Who do you have a crush on? To which, Why do you care? Such bonds, such games, pass the time and draw peers together. Yet that cadence takes us somewhere: it brings in more raw information, and asks for more of our time, than a paragraph, a lyric poem, a song:.

I was taught the lyric is a song outside of time. In narrative, there is consequence:. A leads to B. Some authors get rightly or wrongly celebrated for doing so, especially if the protagonists doing the Living are young, white, well-educated, nondisabled, and urban, so that their experience can be falsely presented as typical, or Universal. Hannah Sullivan has become such an author. Her wryly titled Three Poems —wry in that its beauty stems, in part, from how much it feels like one poem—became in the third first collection in five years to win the T.

Eliot Prize, for the best book of poems published in Britain the US edition hit bookstores in early Evening comes without seeing light again. You should be addressing inefficiencies in online processes, Mastering multichannel, getting serious about small business,.

You have created a spreadsheet with thirteen tabs, The manager is giving you hell, ordering sushi, cancelling cabs…. Earlier Sullivan has been a good deal more intimate, and a good deal more dramatic.

Like many members of her generation and for that matter like me , Sullivan looks up to role models who combined fluidity with self-expression, a sense of authenticity with the ability to strike a pose:. You are listening to Bowie in bed, thinking about the hollows Of his eyes, his lunatic little hand jigs, longing for Berlin in the seventies. Hospitals show this normally fluent and self-assured poet strained, coming apart:.

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those that are not entirely beautiful; Yet many, that have played the fool For beauty's very self, has charm made wise, And many a poor man that has roved, Loved and thought himself beloved, From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

May she become a flourishing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merriment begin a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel.

O may she live like some green laurel Rooted in one dear perpetual place. My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty that I have approved, Prosper but little, has dried up of late, Yet knows that to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf. An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind? Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.

And may her bridegroom bring her to a house Where all's accustomed, ceremonious; For arrogance and hatred are the wares Peddled in the thoroughfares. How but in custom and in ceremony Are innocence and beauty born? Ceremony's a name for the rich horn, And custom for the spreading laurel tree. National Poetry Month.

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