Black aperture
Subtitle: poems
By: Matt Rasmussen
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780807150863
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper."
Notes: "LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso.

"Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of the American Poets--Cover.
Table of contents: title: I. Trajectory; title: After suicide; title: The orange leaves; title: 747; title: The wave; title: And God said,; title: I am not a poem; title: Tom Black; title: Field with whales; title: After suicide; title: In whoever's hotel room this is; title: Vacation cage; title: Monet as a verb; title: We're not the stars, we're what's between them; title: Seed; title: Chekhov's gun; title: II. Elegy in X parts; title: III. Outgoing; title: Land O' Lakes; title: A poem in which leaves again figure prominently; title: Burial; title: Aperture; title: The moon; title: Notlove poem for the fence at the end of the field; title: O; title: Phone; title: An uncertain prayer; title: Your body is a temple is a body again; title: O cremulator; title: After suicide; title: Reverse suicide; title: A horse grazes in my shadow.