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In No Other Rome, the title's "o"s are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae, apertures through which we view the past or future. The poems in this collection engage contemporary art and Modern literature, alongside texts from Classical Greece and Rome, in an embodied, intertextual worry. The poems ask what lasts--"please last"--and what might be the last (or, with an "o," "lost,") "time," "auk," or "breath" as we move away from twentieth-century concerns into an unpredictable future. When there is no Planet B, no other Troy to burn, these elegies, love poems, and meditations seek a song that could "in singing, change the seen."

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	22 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781629222172
Langue	English

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NO OTHER ROME
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor

Heather Green, No Other Rome
Sean Shearer, Red Lemons
Annah Browning, Witch Doctrine
Emily Corwin, Sensorium
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, A Brief History of Fruit
Joshua Harmon, The Soft Path
Oliver de la Paz, The Boy in the Labyrinth
Krystal Languell, Quite Apart
Brittany Cavallaro, Unhistorical
Tyler Mills, Hawk Parable
Caryl Pagel, Twice Told
Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions
Emilia Phillips, Empty Clip
Anne Barngrover, Brazen Creature
Matthew Guenette, Vasectomania
Sandra Simonds, Further Problems with Pleasure
Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings
Emilia Phillips, Groundspeed
Philip Metres, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album
Jennifer Moore, The Veronica Maneuver
Brittany Cavallaro, Girl-King
Oliver de la Paz, Post Subject: A Fable
John Repp, Fat Jersey Blues
Emilia Phillips, Signaletics
Seth Abramson, Thievery
Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream
Jason Bredle, Carnival
Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Titles published since 2012.
For a complete listing of titles published in the series,
go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry .
NO OTHER ROME
Heather Green
Copyright © 2021 by The University of Akron Press
All rights reserved • First Edition 2021 • Manufactured in the United States of America.
All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the publisher,
The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325-1703.
ISBN : 978-1-62922-206-6 (paper)
ISBN : 978-1-62922-216-5 (ePDF)
ISBN : 978-1-62922-217-2 (ePub)
A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress.
∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).
Cover image: Kevin Francis Gray, Greek Onyx Girl (detail), 2018. © Kevin Francis Gray, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Kevin Francis Gray Studio 2020
Cover design by Amy Freels.
No Other Rome was designed and typeset in Garamond with Hypatia Sans titles by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by Bookmasters of Ashland, Ohio. Produced in conjunction with the University of Akron Affordable Learning Initiative. More information is available at www.uakron.edu/affordablelearning/ .
I am closer to you
Than land and I am in a stranger ocean
Than I wished.
—Barbara Guest, from “Parachutes, My Love,
Could Carry Us Higher”
CONTENTS
I
If Anything Is Everlasting It Can Only Be One Thing
Provincial Time
Aristotle Is a Skeleton
“I Can See through Walls”
How the Little Bear Reflected Light
I Typed Your Poem with My Own Hands Today
The Angel Is an Amalgam
Small Machines with Sapphic Fragment
A Series of Holes Connected by String
II
Treachery
Spectres
“I Will See the Future”
The Monocle Is a Circle the Eye Is a Circle
Let Us Try for Once Not to Be Right
The Problem with Samy Rosenstock
What’s Water?
Valentine’s Day at the SF MOMA, Again
III
The Transitive Properties of Snow
Feathers, Quiet, Light
I Make the Living Water Wet
Proteas
Vita Astrale
The Half-God Appears
I Was Reading up on My Hellenic Math
IV
New Names
Spoglie
Rome, with Child
O, to Live in the Necropolis
Fable for a Genome
Notes
Acknowledgments
I
IF ANYTHING IS EVERLASTING IT CAN ONLY BE ONE THING
Early on, learned from Prince, parties weren’t meant to.
But there is the subjunctive continuous, meant to last. We party. We keep going.
He was the last love on the last island, in the last channel-blasted reef.
The saddest words: the last time.
The last great auk.
Please last.
My Dad’s last days. He was freezing and bearded in a hospice like a motel, the last rasping breaths.
He used to say: second is just the first person to finish last, or something like that.
From day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time
Some say grief is the last way you get to love someone, but in truth the dead become our close companions, even in joy.
Will anybody see the last flowering of the last nacred sea anemone?
I can’t undo what I’ve already done. I’d go back in a flash.
Trees sprinting up the hill in search of cooler clime will last a little longer, but the hill is a cone with very little space up top, and only so high.

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