Tremulous Hinge ( paper )

Publication series ：paper

Author： Adam Giannelli  

Publisher： University of Iowa Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781609384876

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781609384869

Subject： I106.2 Poetry

Keyword： 诗歌,世界文学

Language： ENG

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Description

Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.”

From the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge between word and world. Ultimately, among lofting waves, collapsing hands, and darkening skies, words themselves—a stutterers maneuvers through speech, a deceased grandfather’s use of punctuation—become forms of consolation. From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes. 
 

Chapter

Contents

Stutter

Fern and Shadow

Sealevel

Star Gazers

Hydrangea

How the Light Is Spent

Porcupine

My Insomnia

Late Audience

Garland

The String

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

The Brunt of Love

Orchids, Avenues

Little Winds

Aspens in Wind

Passage

Sweet Imposition

Curl

Gravity

On a Line by Proust

Knot in the Wood

The Phone Call

Perch

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Incurable Cloud

Half the Leaves

What We Know

A Thousand Small Nights

Light-Footed

Reflections

The Shards Still Trembling

Hush

Like the Touch of Bent Grass

Clearing, Clear

Plea for Interlude

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Rain

For Nashaly

The Opposite of Sugar

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