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    Correspondence
    Correspondence
    Correspondence
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    Correspondence

    By Kathleen Graber

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    “Correspondence,” writes Mark Doty, “is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind mapping its way toward a way to bear the weight of love.” Kathleen Graber’s debut book takes us on a trip through history and time, varying her subjects with speed and seamlessness, to a dizzying, dazzling effect. From the Philadelphia Eagles to Cornell’s boxes, from a fertility clinic to Daguerre’s prints, from Kafka to running over two cats, from Annette Benning to Marianne Moore, Kathleen Graber’s poems embrace what her inquisitive mind traverses, ensnaring past and present, familiar and foreign, soulful and scientific, in a celebration of chaos that is generous and healing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaturnalia Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2006
    ISBN9781617506970
    Correspondence
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    Kathleen Graber

    Kathleen Graber teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker and the American Poetry Review, among other publications, and her first collection, Correspondence, was published in 2006.

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      Correspondence - Kathleen Graber

      Correspondence

      Copyright 2005 © Kathleen Graber

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and review. Please direct inquiries to:

      Saturnalia Books

      13 East Highland Ave.

      2nd Floor

      Philadelphia, PA 19118

      info@saturnaliabooks.com

      ISBN 0-9754990-3-3

      Book Design by Saturnalia Books

      Printing by Westcan Printing Group, Canada.

      Cover Art: Horse Against Studio Wall, 1999 by Rosamond W. Purcell © 2004 R.W. Purcell

      Author Photograph: Francis Kaklauskas

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      Acknowledgments from Kathleen Graber:

      I would like to acknowledge the following journals in which several poems first appeared: Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review, The Hudson Review, Washington Square, Bucks County Review, Tiferet, Arts & Letters, and Dragonfire.

      I am grateful to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation for their generous support.

      I have many people to thank, beginning with Bob Hicok, and Henry Israeli and Joanna Goodman at Saturnalia Books, and Rosamond Purcell, who so generously provided the photograph that appears on the cover. I owe an enormous debt to the writing communities at New York University. The poets who were my classmates in the Creative Writing Program—Kazim Ali, Adam Day, K. Dimma, Brian McDonald, Jason Schniederman, and Adam Williams—have been unwavering in their support and exceptionally generous with their feedback. I want to thank our director and tireless advocate, Melissa Hammerle, for her deep kindness and encouragement. My teachers, at NYU and elsewhere, have been amazing poets and exemplary human beings: Renee Ashley, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, Peter Murphy, and Tom Sleigh. I feel profoundly fortunate to teach in NYU’s Expository Writing Program, and I want to thank Pat Hoy, a writer and thinker from whom I have learned so much. I want especially to thank Mark Doty for not only his consistently intelligent insights but also for his abiding optimism and unshakable belief in me. My deep thanks also to Paul Lisicky for his warm and truly delightful friendship. My thanks to Aaron Balkan, Ciaran Berry and Anthony Carelli, Barbara Daniels, and Elinor Mattern for the careful attention that they have brought to every poem I’ve ever shown them. Every writer imagines an ideal reader. My deepest thanks to Matt Donovan for having been all that that implies, incredibly patient, smart, honest, and inspiring.

      Finally, to my family—Joan and Len, Francis and, Elizabeth, Erin and Colleen—and my dear friend Frank Smigiel—for their ongoing support. And beneath even this, to my husband Larry, whose steadiness and love have made this book possible.

      For the dead—

      Bud and Eileen Kalafski

      Edward Kalafski

      Len and Angelina Klaus

      Margaret Henderson

      Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right from the start, the great collector is struck by the confusion, by the scatter, in which the things of the world are found.

      Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.

      -Walter Benjamin

      Contents

      I.

      Between Laurelton and Locust Manor

      Terra Incognita

      Romantic Museum

      The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

      After a Student, 15, Declares He Will Renounce the World for God

      The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting

      L is for Laburnum

      II.

      The Off Season

      Equivalent Difference

      The Language of Bees

      Oracle, With Lines from Montale’s "La Farandola

      Dei Fanciulli"

      The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting

      E is for Elegies, or Enough to be Counted

      III.

      Anniversary

      Mysterium Cosmographicum

      Physics

      Das Passagen-Werk

      The Letters: A Mnemonic for

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