Beschreibung:
Full of music, these finely crafted poems continue Waters' bold exploration of spiritual recklessness and celebration through sensuality and transgression.
In these poems of taut clarity, craft, and texture, Michael Waters continues his bold exploration of sensual pleasure and moral transgression as means of affirming spiritual faith. Just as a joyride suggests recklessness and exhilaration, so Celestial Joyride is an energized journey marked by spiritual recklessness in the face of perpetual mortality. Compelling, musical narratives offer rich meaning and vivid consequence.
Michael Waters's poetry books include BOA Editions titles Gospel Night, Darling Vulgarity, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Parthenopi, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University MFA Program.
CONTENTS
Madrigal
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Effata
Beauty in the World
Punk Prayer
American Songbook
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Dominoes
Poem, Slow to Come, on the Death of Logan
Marvel
Old School
Old Country Recipes
Pottery Sale
Blackbirds
Tic Tac Toe
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Sixties Sonnet
Old Records
The Captain’s Tower
The Beatles
The Book of Names
Eve’s Daughter
Mihaela Barefoot
Radu Lupu
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The Scavengers
The Littoral
Horse (Ars Poetica)
Dog Ears
Quoting Rumi
Jade Garden
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Morning Run
Erotic Amphora
The New Gods
Last Day on Ios
Sick Student
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Chernobyl Necklace
Tiganca
Letter to Stern from Suceava
Sucevi?a Monastery
Vorone? Blue
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Lord Cockroach
Wooden Boat
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Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Colophon