Body Moves: Poems
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Description
Seibles may write of everyday events sleeping, teaching a class, talking on the phone in direct, simple language, but he invests each event with lyric significance: "you slept/ with your mouth open/ and the moon/ slipped inside"; "fluorescent light falls/ like a fine snow/ in the classroom"; "The phone rings. A low voice/ bleeds through the wire." Throughout, we sense despair and a concerted effort, barely accomplished, to resist it: the poet mourns "faces bruised/ with unspent desire," says of breakfasting alone in a MacDonald's, "There's nothing but eating to do." Other poems deal more directly with social concerns: "In Philadelphia/ I went back to the school/ we integrated." The cumulative result is an accessible yet thoughtful work that may well draw in readers new to poetry. [From Library Journal]
ISBN
9780887485596
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
City
Pittsburgh, PA
Keywords
American poetry, African American authors
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Poetry
Recommended Citation
Seibles, Tim, "Body Moves: Poems" (2013). MFA Creative Writing Faculty Bookshelf. 33.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mfa_books/33
Comments
1st Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporaries ed., Feb. 2012.
First published: San Antonio: Corona, 1988.