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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Deep Gossip

Deep Gossip

New and Selected Poems

ISBN: 9781421437873
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Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, one capable of the clarity and inventiveness it takes to work a problem both to pleasure and to resolution. Playing with and challenging form in all directions, the 27 new and 96 selected poems in Deep Gossip bristle with a sly wit that trips and delights the reader.   
 
Wade disguises some sonnets by arranging their perfect rhymes so they're not immediately audible. She composes other sonnets in dimeter, rather than pentameter; works in syllabics; includes one poem written in the octave stanza form invented by John Berryman for his book-length "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"; and entrances readers with her long and skinny couplets, a form she perfected in her last collection, Bird Book. Inspired by landscape, language, music, and living things, as well as the occasional bout of political outrage, Deep Gossip is a smart collection, deceptively so.

By Sidney Wade

Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Pages: 272

New Poems (2017-2019)Fata MorganaThree VoicesBeesPollen""Human Food Consists Entirely of Souls""Here, Kitty Kitty Kitty KittyRosy Maple MothMemento MoriBirdwatchingFigure and Ground: Cryptic Camouflage and Vishal Rhyme32 BirdsJunco in SnowNature PoetsSeeing the OpthalmologistEyeSkinFabricBreathFearBlood MoonSpring Blizzard in Denmark, KansasNothing NewYellow-crowned Tyrannulet, Cock of the Rock, Northern Screamerthree small movementsThe FootGravediggersWood Stork

from Empty Sleeves (1991)Snowy OwlSwan LakeA Local HabitationApostrophe to, and Roses for, BeatriceBeatrice RisingA River of TonguesPungent SaucesDe Ratione AmorisLeaving RomeGasLocus AmoenusKansas WeatherThe Church and the SteepleThe CombineKirkeskibe'The Ship in the Church

from Green (1998)BricolageAnother Passionless DayIn the LibraryTrapped in my Rib-cage, Something Throes and Aches...Premature Ventricular ContractionsAlcaic FigureDog SonnetByzantiumDolphins in the SnowDrinking Wine on a Hill Above the Confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn Cow FordMarriage: A MomentFor My MotherShoreRainGreen

from From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998)Termessos

from Celestial Bodies (2002)Mouth-RiverChin SongUn Messagio per il CorpoIdeology Stinks, But the Heart Smells PureApproaching FiftyOut for a WalkArs LongaTime is MoneyTime and a DogSundog to MoondogPluteus PetasatusChimaeraDancing at the Binbir Gece

from Stroke (2007)No Comfort to be HadDeep GossipInsuranceThe Visionary from ApopkaThe Body PoliticTime's List of Things to DoThe Vulgate of ExperienceFour Tiny SonnetsDriving to AssosHystericalectomyDroughtAvant-gardening on my weeping kneesLittle Pirate SongGrand DisasteryA Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport

from Straits & Narrows (2013)Animist ManifestoBoulderInterludeSuch LuckIn the Mood for LoveFormPrairieThe CreepsWild RaspberryOLittoralHybridPeonyStuckRun OnMy IstanbulGeep

from Bird Book (2017)first green flareA BirdBurrowing OwlBirdsIndigo BuntingMarsh PoodleCardinalKilldeer BathingWhimbrelTurkey VulturesGlory TrainBirding at the Hamilton County Phosphate MinesBird WordsLoonBlueOsprey and NeedlefishBirding at the Dairythirty whiteThe Hard Saving

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