Pioneers in the Study of MotionPoetry. Like lyric field notes from a worldwide anthropological journey, Briante's poems scrutinize human and urban situations. "Amid a riot of signals, cranes, and circuitry--from Mexico City to Antarctica--the reader succumbs to a sense of non-stop construction, to the craven expansion of cities in the glistening fields. In the chaos of sensory overload, the poet still manages to detect 'droplets of pollen slip from anther to stamen,' to feel a stream running dry inside. It's a work of shuddering velocity--an ode, a screed, a lament, a love song of 'pristine and inarticulate mornings.' Susan Briante's PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION details the ravages of the world in a voracious struggle to savor its sweetness"--C.D. Wright. |
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3rd Day of the Rainy Season | 3 |
Unquiet | 9 |
Wood Formica | 15 |
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acid-free paper baby Billboards birds blade BLEATING SHEEP blue Boise State University branches Brasilia Bruce Springsteen CINTAS cloud Clutch color cornrow cotton crow curb Dusk edge eel grass EVENTUAL DARLING KANPUR eyes fall filigree fingers flame flowers gaze gesture glisten grackles grass gravel guardrail hand History of Steam horizon INDIAN NATION TURNPIKE Kinshasa Leo Romero Let us praise light lines lips lychee Marvin Gaye Mexico City miles morning mouth Nahua Nahuatl neon Numbers oil rig oxides of nitrogen palm Pan American particle pigment PIONEERS plastic possesses someone's PRESS 2007 JANET Press at Boise radio rain RAINY SEASON road Roland Barthes rooftops rusted scrubs Selected Poems shoulder sidewalk slip Steam Locomotion stitch street STUDY OF MOTION Summer ends Susan Briante swallow taxi thin white line Thomas Hornsby towers traffic trees twig Unconjugated VON MAUR wheels wind window wire writes André Tridon