Weather inventions /Emily Rosko.
- First edition.
- Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (79 pages).
- Akron series in poetry .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; How thought the beauty of being; I; Gossamer; Reverdie; Weathervane; At the Rise, a Turn; A Rarity; Condition Notes; Electromagnetic; Sea Change; Rainbow; II; Sail; Not Need but the Sky Outright; Drone; Condition Notes; Hail; The Candescence; Encasement; Fern; Drought; Vortex; The Greenery Goldens, Night Takes from Us All Forms; III; Rain Devices; Condition Notes; Windmill; Tendered; Jet Stream; Transit; Hunted; Arrow; HAARP; Harvester; IV; Cloud Study; V; Condition Notes; Color Theory; Arctic If Matters Come to the Worst, As in the Present InstanceOut of the Blue; Snowflake; Internal Compass; Uplands, Winter; Wind Aflush in the Head, A Wakefulness; Flood Plain; I Felt Like the Sound of a Harp; The Prevailing; Notes; Acknowledgments
"'First marvel; then record.' This tempered revision of Wordsworth's famous definition of poetry as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion recollected in tranquility serves as a useful guide to Emily Rosko's Weather Inventions. The poems in Rosko's third collection capture an enduring sense of wonder in the face of nature alongside the scientific impulse to observe and measure. At turns evasive and earnest, erudite and unguarded, researched and unbooked, the poems in Rosko's Weather Inventions chart humanity's enduring attachments to weather in science and art. Weather is the creative force here, inspiring a search for objective and reflective truths about our lives on this planet"--