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All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr's poems the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that struggle includes the eternal presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today's wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle?

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Boxer of Quirinal

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South China Sea

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Mer de Chine méridionale

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Publié par	Red Hen Press
Date de parution	20 juin 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781636280929
Langue	English

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Also by John Barr
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The Hundred Fathom Curve: New & Selected Poems
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The Boxer of Quirinal
Copyright 2023 by John Barr
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Photograph on page 65 Masses of Christmas Island Red Crabs spawning on the beach. used by permission of Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Barr, John, 1943- author.
Title: The boxer of quirinal: poems / John Barr.
Description: First Edition. | Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, [2023]
Identifiers: LCCN 2022038036 (print) | LCCN 2022038037 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636280912 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781636281049 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636280929 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3552.A731837 B69 2023 (print) | LCC PS3552.A731837 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54-dc23/eng/20220829
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022038036
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022038037
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Meta George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

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Gratitude
My thanks to the editors who first published the following:
Allium : “Albatross”; Innisfree Poetry Journal : “Dante at Shiloh,” “The Power & Light Company,” “Water’s Way”; Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry : “Promethean”; Medmic : “Hospice, Morristown NJ”; Poetry : “The Hove”; Querencia Anthology : “L’Envois”; Scottish Poetry Library : “The Library of Innerpeffray”; The Century Association for setting “Albatross” to music and performing it; The National Geographic Society : “Chicago, Tell Me Who You Are”; The New Criterion : “Season of Spores”; The New York Times : “Heron”; The Shore : “Hospice, Morristown NJ”; and War, Literature & the Arts : “Black Powder.”
With special thanks to Nate, Lisbeth, and William Kinsolving for their readings of “The South China Sea”; to Colby Devitt and Sarah Katz for giving the poems an online life; and to Ilya Kaminsky and Jim Haines, who improved the whole book.
for Ilya Kaminsky
Contents
I. Proof of Life
Heron
Albatross
Eight Minutes Out
L’Envois
Season of Spores
Book of Knowledge
The Governing Reality
The Möbius Strip
The Hoard
The Library at Innerpeffray
Black Powder
Aristophanes at Cancún
Promethean
In a Taverna
Chicago, Tell Me Who You Are
The Power & Light Company
Emerging Market Unicorn
Song of the Newlyweds
II. The Boxer of Quirinal
The Boxer of Quirinal
Dante at Shiloh
The Hove
Ship Captain Crew
The South China Sea
Introduction
The Colonist
His Journal
And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Running Dogs & Capitalist Roaders
The Gods of War
The Law of the Sea
The Second Colonist
III . The Immortality Sweepstakes
Stump Work
Obsequy
The First Emperor
Hospice, Morristown NJ
Water’s Way
Noel
Noble Rot
The Immortality Sweepstakes
Notes

I
Proof of Life
Heron
for Warren Douglas
He comes when the light is right,
banking the pond’s perimeter
to land and step into a statue’s stillness.
When the light is right the fish come in to feed,
feeling it safe to nose among the weeds,
to risk the proximity of feet, of legs
that rise like reeds to a distant body above.
Once I saw him come in heavy rain,
knowing it would roil the fisheye view.
I watched his neck—a question mark—release,
his beak harpoon a startled shape,
and saw it go headfirst down the hatch.
Perfect hunger. Perfect hunter. Perfect prey.
I wait for the heron to come.
Albatross
For its first five years the bird does not return to land.
Home is not land’s end,
a fledgling nest
of food and rest.
Home is the wind
you glide, the sea
you glean unendingly
until a hunger comes
to Wheel and Go —
not Home
but what you can’t yet know:
the clambering of kind
on kind.
Eight Minutes Out
Like a ringmaster in