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Reading itself is travel in Derek Gromadzki’s first book, Pilgrimage Suites, an outing across an insular medieval landscape as rich in its registers of language as in its flora or fauna. This book is neither history nor story, though it retains characteristics of each. Like history, it perpetuates retrograde speculation while maintaining the narrated sequencing of incident that is the common stock and trade of story. In the heyday of medieval pilgrimages, English underwent radical changes. The Latinate speech of Church officialdom ran roughly up against a vernacular with deep Germanic and Brythonic roots. These suites track an imagined journey over the landscape that staged the violence of this conflict, whereon strikingly beautiful monuments stood in the aftermath. To the cultural clashes and assimilations materially manifest in the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals travelers still venerate today, Gromadzki offers an overlooked parallel through creative strife with sound. He uses the momentum generated in running the lexical and rhythmic possibilities of English’s varied sources together to stretch and sustain the lyric over a pastoral background to push each of these two modes past its respective limits.

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Publié par	Parlor Press, LLC
Date de parution	01 octobre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781602358669
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Pilgrimage Suites
Derek Gromadzki
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621
© 2017 by Parlor Press
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gromadzki, Derek, author.
Title: Pilgrimage suites / Derek Gromadzki.
Description: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2017] | Series: Free verse editions
Identifiers: LCCN 2017038925| ISBN 9781602358645 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781602358669 (epub) | ISBN 9781602358676 (ibook) | ISBN 9781602358683
(mobi)
Classification: LCC PS3607.R636 A6 2017 | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038925
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Cover design by Joshua Unikel.
Cover illustration by Frank Parker. Courtesy of Judith Parker. Used by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paperback and ebook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com or through online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621, or email editor@parlorpress.com.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Overland
Cathedra
Waygate
About the Author
Free Verse Editions

Acknowledgments
Thanks to the editors of the following publications, in which many of the poems that follow first appeared, provisionally titled and often in rather different forms: American Letters & Commentary ; Black Warrior Review ; The Brooklyner ; The Buenos Aires Review ; Colorado Review ; Conjunctions ; CutBank ; Drunken Boat ; Free Verse ; Front Porch ; The Journal ; Midway ; Monongahela Review ; New Delta Review ; Nimrod ; The PEN Poetry Series at PEN USA; and Sakura Review . Further thanks to John Cayley, Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, Gale Nelson, and Cole Swensen, for their insight during the writing of this book, and to Joshua Unikel for realizing its design.
A great debt of gratitude is owed to Judith and Diantha Parker, wife and daughter of the artist, Frank Parker. Frank created the images that accompany and punctuate, either as frontispieces or covers, Robert Lowell’s books. And he created them largely in response to Lowell’s poems. Through a strange reversal, after years spent reading those poems, I can imagine the images without them; I cannot imagine the poems without the images. May that and the reappearance of one of those images on the cover of this book – by Diantha’s help and by Judith’s permission – be another testament, however small, to the singular verve of Frank’s hand. Thank you.

Him as was has gone from we
Us as is must go to he
—Inscribed on a Radnorshire gravestone

Overland
Ich em nu alder þene ich wes, a wintre ent a lare,
Ich welde mare þene ich dede, mi wit ahte bon mare.
Bend a lay on a hamstrung broom
Upend your empty casks and bang
Abrasive on the drums of infidels
Mewl O imprudent voyagers mewl
And brag to rebec strings a fool’s
Errand danced unshod for penance
Linger for the tune of wood that leads cicada song
in flight from fields pipe soft and charm these steps
on ways not lost but loss itself
where the air turns air to silver
and opens fornever with nothing below first patterns of asterisms unfolding
–– reel lie down lie down on the
wings of swifts wheeling
where remainders and the cast off symmetry of circles
descend in hymns
on a kind of mire or slow mix of faith and idleness
mortar shims and stonemen’s brick languishing under the influence of the sun
that parts spires from halls until they fall from traditions
to heath to houses of peat and clay
cracks filled with fishbone plaster
daubed with wine and the
haptic afterlapse of a grace held in scallop shells
drawn along the thews of melody
dissembling and reassembling scant histories
run through psalms whispered into rosewood beads
are rovers’ odes for plowmen
accustomed to tides and the reaches of would-be
terrains scraped grim on tides’ attritions
undoing after us
what we with twigs and slapdash ever did our
weirs they swill apart they drift down rindles
mixed among the sticklebacks and we failed fishers too we were
our soft wood rattling waves where eddies catch
decay and ongoing corrosion
at lengths of damp advance a sterterous cringe
through clabber we drag through c

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