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020 $a9781932511871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1932511873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aBursky, Rick.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005006397
245 10 $aDeath obscura :$bpoems /$cRick Bursky.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aLouisville, Ky. :$bSarabande Books,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a61 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tThe Mandolin -- $tThen What -- $tThe Virtu -- $tLament for the Persians -- $tThe Aerodynamics -- $tHeroine in Repose -- $tThe Chrysalis -- $tTwo Sonnets for the Left Ventricle of the Heart -- $tSutra -- $tThe Scratch -- $tCardiology -- $tThe Study -- $tThe Surface of the Tongue -- $tThe Argonaut Years -- $tJudas -- $tYou Can Talk to a Ghost All You Want, It Won't Change a Thing -- $tThe Silences -- $tThe Decorum -- $tThe Immortals -- $tThe Separation -- $tOcular Triptych -- $tThe Strangers -- $tThe History of Traitors -- $tThe Meaning of Numbers -- $tThe Curator of Closets -- $tDeath Obscura -- $tThe Hypnology -- $tThe Original Purpose of the Box -- $tThe Waiting -- $tThe Ritual -- $tDecember -- $tElegy Written in Four Seasons -- $tThis Wasn't.
520 1 $a""Rick Bursky is a master of dark improbabilities and essential strangeness. His poems lead askew alleyways of situation, feeling, and thought to what is original, unparaphrasable, and revelatory in these poems and our lives."---Jane Hirshfield" ""Death Obscura is a spectacular achievement. By turns elegant and ironic, extroverted and gazing fully inward, funny and heartbreaking, Rick Bursky's voice is pitch-perfect. His work hypnotizes and shocks us at the same time. For years I have come to his poetry looking for inspiration because he is a master craftsman---but, even more importantly, he is a poet who is never afraid to abandon a plan for a true epiphany or a stunning image. His poems overflow with those. Rick Bursky is one of our best poets, and the poetry in Death Obscura is his best work yet."---Laura Kasischke" ""Rick Bursky is one of the more distinct voices in contemporary poetry. At once mystical and literal, satirical and romantic, inventive and accessible, his poems move seamlessly between realities and levels of human experience. There is a kind of sober wit at work in his poetry, a lyrical witness of the imagination, and a genius at unveiling the inter-play between fact and fiction, imagination and reality, the ordinary and the surreal. I find myself reading his poems over and over again, amazed by the revelation of the way a mind reflects on a mind. And on the beauty and insights offered by each reflection."---Nin Andrews" "A surreality that is lived in---populated by the death-obsessed, yet distracted by levity---Death Obscura is a poetry of glimpses. In these dark fragments, narratives are observed through the curtains. You could call Rick Bursky's work California Gothic, inhabiting a moody Los Angeles where we move carefully or brazenly, well aware that the neighbors are watching. Death Obscura is Bursky's second collection, and it strikes the perfect balance between off-hand and insistent, ordinary and absurd. This is a sly, moving, and irresistible read."--BOOK JACKET.
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