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Here is a book that is truly quietly deeply subtle. It appears to operate along the lines of here is how one thing follows another; it appears to rely on anticipated cause and effect to spring us forth from one fraction of a split second's thought to the next. There are many and then actions in this book. What follows comes as a surprise sometimes even when it shouldn't. For instance, at one poem's conclusion it says: An archer shoots. That's what an archer does. And this is astonishing. And then it is almost heartbreaking and then one must do a double take and then there is poetry. -Dara Wier A few rare holdouts to the contrary, American culture is loud, unsubtle, insensitive, needy, exhausting, cheaply convenient, unreflective, and above all, distracted. What has been happening behind the scenes during all the years we haven't been paying attention? What world have we given ourselves and what have we given up in that shallow exchange? Such observations are deeply implied by the poems in Seth Abramson's Thievery. At the bottom of this book is the sense that we've been ripped off and don't even know it yet. That we have allowed it has left us stunted, morally and spiritually, with no greater sense of wonder than a Styrofoam cup. Abramson is not preaching, however: he is telling the melancholy, lonely truth.-Maurice Manning

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	01 avril 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781937378691
Langue	English

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Thievery
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY Mary Biddinger, Editor
Seth Abramson, Thievery
Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream
Jason Bredle, Carnival
Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Matthew Guenette, American Busboy
Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
David Dodd Lee, Orphan, Indiana
Sarah Perrier, Nothing Fatal
Oliver de la Paz, Requiem for the Orchard
Rachel Dilworth, The Wild Rose Asylum
John Minczeski, A Letter to Serafin
John Gallaher, Map of the Folded World
Heather Derr-Smith, The Bride Minaret
William Greenway, Everywhere at Once
Brian Brodeur, Other Latitudes
Jeff Gundy, Spoken among the Trees
Alison Pelegrin, Big Muddy River of Stars
Roger Mitchell, Half/Mask
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, The Book of Accident
Clare Rossini, Lingo
Vern Rutsala, How We Spent Our Time
Kurt Brown, Meg Kearney, Donna Reis, Estha Weiner, eds.,
Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews
Sharmila Voorakkara, Fire Wheel
Dennis Hinrichsen, Cage of Water
Lynn Powell, The Zones of Paradise
Titles published since 2003.
For a complete listing of titles published in the series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry
Thievery
Seth Abramson
Copyright © 2013 by Seth Abramson
All rights reserved • First Edition 2013 • 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.
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ISBN : 978-1-937378-66-0 ( CLOTH )
ISBN : 978-1-937378-67-7 ( PAPER )
This book has been cataloged by the Library of Congress.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI NISO z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). ∞
Cover: ghosts #6 by Chris Friel, www.chrisfriel.co.uk . Used with permission.
Thievery was designed and typeset in Stone Print by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by BookMasters of Ashland, Ohio.
for my parents
CONTENTS
I
Slowdown
Gunbroke
Some Drowned Archer
The Country West
All You Ploughboys
The Woods in Concord
Naughty Boys Well and Truly Punished
Hometown Courage
A Costume for Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
Things Unso
The Push
II
Paracosmics
Pubescence
The Better Kids
First Responder
Love Song for Another Boy
The Marchers
Good Form
Trisomic Dialogue
Thievery
Only
Bronx Flyweight Spars
The Fire Door
III
Chronophrenia
IV
No One Is Keeping You Here
Dust Bowl
First Sermon
Red Shirts and No Boots
Hy-Vee
The Dock Lights at Cattlepurse in the Fall
South
Wrecker
Ekphrasis
Transit
A God for October
Hello the House
Samson at the Pillar
Poem for Battered Man
Acknowledgments
I
SLOWDOWN
What you cannot face
you face—that’s your direction. In houses in cars
in cars that become houses
the event stage is dark
then revealed, the longest story chapter by chapter,
what makes someone somewhere
despise you. How will I know when it happens?
It’ll be a long drive,
you’ll know.
Across the street is a street fight
in which a man without shoes shrieks to no one
particularly
but not to me. The alarm clock is pushed away
from the bed and a man is lifted up to a white van.
His arm falls to signal everyone back
to the races. Or it’s midnight,
and men and women are in each other
in buildings,
and some have never gone anywhere
but there, over and over. What apartment are you in
they will be particularly asked
and they will say
the same as before, Mother. What state are you in?
Again. The question has their scent and the answer
their form. It is the fight of their
lives, if they walk away from it. And then that’s that,
or nearly.
GUNBROKE
South is adventure, north cold but also shelter,
and in the west
an end. It is south then north then west, the trail.