Civil twilight
Subtitle: poems
By: Jeffrey Schultz
Edition: First edition.
Series: National poetry series; National poetry series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780062678980
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "'Civil twilight' occurs just before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the richness of their detail. Beginning with the idea that nothing can be seen clearly in the light of the present, the poems in Civil Twilight attempt to resuscitate lyric's revelatory impulse by taking nothing for granted, forming their materials under the light of a critical gaze. If there is any chance left for a humane world, a world in which poetry might become as transparent and evocative as it has always longed to be, these poems desire nothing but to find hints of that chance, and to follow them as far as they might lead. Jeffrey Schultz brings his distinct voice to bear on the stuff of twenty-first-century America--languishing FOIA requests, graffiti-covered city walls, the violent machinery of the state--without abandoning hope that the language of poetry might transport us to some better and as-yet-unimaginable world. Turning a call to be 'civil' on its head, this collection nudges the reader toward revolution"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "National Poetry Series winner, selected by David St. John"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Stare decisis et non quieta movere; title: Habeas corpus; title: Civil twilight; title: Deleted scene; title: Offering of two burning calves; title: Sort of like, um, the falcon & the falconer or whatever, but sort of not; title: Resolution in loving memory of sky & gooseflesh; title: & plays it one more time, with feeling, in the rotating piano bar atop the grand hotel abyss.