The audible and the evident : poems /
Julie Hanson.
- Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (viii, 88 pages)
- The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Contents -- Part I -- Real Life, Dear Voyeur, Real Life -- Mushroom on the Lawn -- Qu'est-ce qu'il y a? -- They Are Widening the Road -- Buttons -- My Job as a Child -- Improvisation or The Bluebird of Happiness -- Deleted Poem -- A Tan Dog Standing -- Why Do Men Spit? -- The Applicant's Wife's Renderingof the Facility Tour -- Method -- Squall Line Stalling in a Memory of Rain -- Rundown Ride -- Eclipse on the Day of the Field Trip -- An Errand -- At Pauline's -- Part II -- Law -- It is unconquerable -- it has -- Summer Shower -- Toggle -- Re-entry -- Advent -- Dialectic and Infusion 27 October. Dreary. -- Passage Through -- The Meeting -- Away -- The Clacklet -- The Prints from Vacation Are Back -- Daylight -- Final Moments, Summer School -- Swissed -- Trail -- Part III -- Accord -- The Vacuum -- A Mile In -- McCall's 8041 -- In the Garden of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen -- Of -- Early Cinematography -- But All Energy Does Go Somewhere -- Indoor Tundra -- In Which I Am Taken for a Ride -- My Lifelong Relationship with God -- My Neighbor's Maple -- Monday -- Now -- Ocean -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
"In this, Julie Hanson's second award-winning book, the poems inscribe deep stillness on a world of harmonies in motion. Whether composed on modern objects, say a vacuum-"part pet, part sculpture/sprawled awkwardly, still shrieking"-that evokes a sudden onrush of sobbing, or the notional movement between a plastic bag, a lawn and a return from a France not yet visited, these poems circulate among the senses as moments that pass and are recalled. Hanson's poems investigate interiority as they resonate in the ear to excite the eye. Together, her poems illustrate the movement between and among seasons and tasks, work and leisure, solitude and people, and all through the private life as it intersects with the products and noises of industry and nature. Hanson's is a poetic realm that includes the head-splitting bright white screamings of an Indy 500 race into a zen garden, this realm we all inhabit where birdsong and squeaky water meters improvise together"--