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A Lens in the PalmKelly Grovier![]()
Categories: 21st Century, American, First Collections
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Jan 2008) 9781903039885 Out of Stock
Tonight, the moon is a voice
disguising a language you once found familiar and your hands have that strange look words sometimes get when looked at too long. from 'The shed'
A Lens in the Palm speaks from a world of fragmented philosophies and troubled meditations. Haunted by the ghosts of Keats and Spinoza, of Rodin and Turner, the voices that echo through these poems lead us into a place that is at once familiar and dazzlingly strange. Poems materialise from a palimpsest of twenty-first-century cities 'Paris and New Orleans, Oxford, Milan' where declarations of faith and disbelief clash and blur. Here, the stars 'think themselves into existence', the bones of Giotto jangle, and the 'hairs on a dandelion fizz'.
Cover image Shosan, Monkey reaching for the moon, Japanese woodcut c. 1910. Cover design www.StephenRaw.com.
Contents
The lens 11 Moons 12 The Consolation of Philosophy 13 Ghosting 14 The stars 15 Conversions: the ruined statue of a saint 16 Furcula 17 The frequency 18 There 19 The recipe 20 The line 21 Gumbo 22 What the ceiling said 23 Mincing words 24 Of thought – the train 25 Midas 26 Rodin’s Balzac 27 The ancient of days 28 Hierakonpolis 29 Extraction 30 The ledger 31 Not amnesia 32 ‘Nor even yet quite relinquish –’ 33 The shed 34 Tens and eight 35 Via negativa 36 Between stations 37 Les Parapluies 38 Rain, Steam, andSpeed 39 The easel of Mantegna 40 A spider in Trinity College chapel 41 Reflections on a steel teapot 42 In the National Library of Ireland 43 The triple tree 44 Metaphysics 45 The six fifteen 46 Camping out 47 Spinnings 48 Strange currencies 49 Shutters 50 The ghost grove 51 Tractatus 52 The things of snow 53 Working some things through 54 The metal clasp 55 The night is like a dinosaur 56 Giotto 57 April morning 58 Flickering out 59 A suite of bats 60 Landscape with coffee and wings 64 Philosophy of language 65 Sight, unseen 66 Lacewing 67 Palms 68
Praise for Kelly Grovier
'The 'poetry is precise and well crafted' with 'delicate touches and nuances' that 'reveal a delight in the poetic treatment of sensory expression and cast Grovier as a poet acutely attuned to the intricacies and balances of light'.'
The New Welsh Review 'Wonderful precision, technical ambition, and the ability to surprise the reader' Poetry London 'This is a poet of both truth and beauty' Times Literary Supplement '...Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind.' Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Wales 'Grovier's poems are often amusing and childlike... The narrators may fret, but Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a "slip-knot of stars"'. New Welsh Review |
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