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Winner of the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize"A luminous debut collection of poems."-Peg Boyers, author of To Forget Venice"Moore explores the difficult territory of all that we cannot explain yet must embrace."-Jim Daniels, author of The Middle AgesHow Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines-literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next. To explore these motifs, many of the poems borrow from the world of visual art, including painting, sculpture and its resonance with the creation of the self, and architecture, too, as a metaphorical counterweight to nature.In keeping with the central theme that the stories we tell ourselves-and, by extension, our understanding of who we are-are shaped by the spaces in which we tell them, the poems in How Blood Works vary in form. From traditionally lineated lyrics to more architectural, segmented prose pieces, the poems themselves become a space for narratives of the self to play out.

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Publié par	The Kent State University Press
Date de parution	31 août 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781631014598
Langue	English

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HOW BLOOD WORKS
Wick Poetry First Book Series
DAVID HASSLER, EDITOR
The Local World by Mira Rosenthal
Maggie Anderson, Judge
Wet by Carolyn Creedon
Edward Hirsch, Judge
The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday
Dorianne Laux, Judge
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf
Mark Doty, Judge
Translation by Matthew Minicucci
Jane Hirshfield, Judge
hover over her by Leah Poole Osowski
Adrian Matejka, Judge
Even Years by Christine Gosnay
Angie Estes, Judge
Fugue Figure by Michael McKee Green
Khaled Mattawa, Judge
The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Ellen Bass, Judge
On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar
Natalie Diaz, Judge
How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore
Richard Blanco, Judge
MAGGIE ANDERSON, EDITOR EMERITA
Already the World by Victoria Redel
Gerald Stern, Judge
Likely by Lisa Coffman
Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Judge
Intended Place by Rosemary Willey
Yusef Komunyakaa, Judge
The Apprentice of Fever by Richard Tayson
Marilyn Hacker, Judge
Beyond the Velvet Curtain by Karen Kovacik
Henry Taylor, Judge
The Gospel of Barbecue by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Lucille Clifton, Judge
Paper Cathedrals by Morri Creech
Li-Young Lee, Judge
Back Through Interruption by Kate Northrop
Lynn Emanuel, Judge
The Drowned Girl by Eve Alexandra
C. K. Williams, Judge
Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia by Lee Peterson
Jean Valentine, Judge
Trying to Speak by Anele Rubin
Philip Levine, Judge
Intaglio by Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis
Eleanor Wilner, Judge
Constituents of Matter by Anna Leahy
Alberto Rios, Judge
Far from Algiers by Djelloul Marbrook
Toi Derricotte, Judge
The Infirmary by Edward Micus
Stephen Dunn, Judge
Visible Heavens by Joanna Solfrian
Naomi Shihab Nye, Judge
How Blood Works
Poems by
Ellene Glenn Moore

The Kent State University Press
Kent, Ohio
© 2021 by Ellene Glenn Moore All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-60635-427-8 Manufactured in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced, in any manner whatsoever, without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of short quotations in critical reviews or articles.
The Wick Poetry Series is sponsored by the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Center and the Department of English at Kent State University.
Cataloging information for this title is available at the Library of Congress.
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For Andrew
CONTENTS
Foreword by Richard Blanco
In Paris
I.
Kitchens
Sitting Alone in the Ando Gallery
Ars Poetica
In Washington, DC
Homage in Olive and Mud
Hand Mirror in Bronze
Johnny Tremain
Venison
In Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
Homage in Carmine and Folly
Seven Ghosts
Homage in Many Greens
Seeing a Study for The Burghers of Calais at a Museum in Cleveland
Photograph at the Bridge of Sighs in Winter
Leaving the Galleria dell’Accademia
II.
Blood
III.
Morning Pochade
Homage in Gold and Grey
Whale Watching in Early Spring
Homage in Sap and Granite
A Traditional Sculpture
At Big Cypress National Preserve
In Santa Barbara County
Homage in Crimson and Burgundy
Bedrooms
Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Female Figure
Homage in Onyx and Blood
In Chicago
Ars Poetica
Trying to Conceive in Summer in Burgundy
Evening at the National Cathedral
Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway above Asheville
Acknowledgments
FOREWORD BY RICHARD BLANCO
As with several of the accomplished and worthy manuscripts I pored over as judge for this esteemed contest, How Blood Works also stood out for its deft language, expertly rendered imagery, and sonic quality, among other mastered principles of craft that one would expect to encounter in the polished work of a poet as seasoned as Ellene Glenn Moore. However, what clearly set Moore’s winning manuscript apart from the other contenders came to bear on a single word: trope —that often elusive yet essential quality of a collection that forms its elemental arc, a metaphorical spine that holds it together and elevates a work, transforming it into something transcendent. More specifically, as the book’s title submits, the central trope of bloodline, which courses explicitly and implicitly throughout these pages, is masterfully employed by Moore to thread these poems together, not solely into a great book of poetry but also a powerful one that feels as alive as her heartbeats in harmony with our own.
Throughout several poems in the collection, the tenor of Moore’s trope

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