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Silences for Love

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  • © 1998

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  1. David Cope
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Part of the book series: Vox Humana (VOX)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Turning

    • David Cope
    Pages 1-12

  3. Words

    • David Cope
    Pages 13-28

  4. Calamus

    • David Cope
    Pages 29-40

  5. Back Thru the Veil

    • David Cope
    Pages 41-52

  6. Ancient Rain

    • David Cope
    Pages 53-64

  7. Kitchitikipi

    • David Cope
    Pages 65-80

  8. Harlequin & flowers among stars

    • David Cope
    Pages 81-94

  9. Beyond the swiftly rising stream

    • David Cope
    Pages 95-106

  10. The whirlwind

    • David Cope
    Pages 107-119
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David Cope's fifth book, Silences for Love, is framed in elegies, prophet Martin King to old friend Allen Ginsberg, opening with lights fading & flaring over Lake Superior, closing with one leaf in the hidden meadow. Here are the weary traveler & one-eyed boy, Gettysburg sundown, sighs over Sarajevo & massacre at the Patriarch's tomb, snowstorm canoe trip ending with a brother beneath Northern Lights-deaths & weddings, reunions in companion love, Oklahoma City trail of tears, asking blessing to learn healing. Here too are long silence & welcome home: in aging harlequin & his gypsy, in the runes of the Two-Hearted River, in dreams & visions going & coming, memory of a lost friend trapped on corpse detail, rush hour traffic jam, old bridge & hidden meadow, snowstorm near-death car crash, old friend fired hence with a last call for love, free clothes, & newly unfurling leaf.
Silences for Love also offers "skillful technique, attention to minute particulars & variable foot," continuing to extend the demotic traditions of American poetry established by Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Reznikoff.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Silences for Love

  • Authors: David Cope

  • Series Title: Vox Humana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1812-8

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: David Cope 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-508-9Published: 13 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-631-4Published: 13 July 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1812-8Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 119

  • Topics: Arts

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