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Ephemerist


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About the Book

Poetry. In EPHEMERIST, the speakers of the poems imagine many provisional homes. They make a study of shelter: in the harbors of memory; in art's forms and improvisations; in spirit houses; in the body. Each proves transient. In these poems, each speaker finds that the places she thinks she knows are, in the end, knowable only tangentially and partially, if at all. Shelter is a pharmakon, a substance that is both medicine and toxin. The book imagines, as substitution and remedy, a practice of making what cannot last, what will always disappear, a practice that might be termed ephemerism. One speaker seeks an empty nave where / the icon should go, suggesting that if it could contain just the idea / of an altar, I would worship there. This seeking is a kind of vigil on which nothing depend[s], a radical freedom that is both burden and blessing.

In this collection, EPHEMERIST, Lisa Bickmore takes articulate stock of much that is passing before her eyes, and she presses both their presence and their passing for significance. One happens upon brief consolations along this journey through momentary matter, but the base note here is willingness, the connective tissue is hope, and the last word is light.--Scott Cairns

'I recognized the urge to capture, ' Bickmore writes of Audubon's gorgeous avian portraits, her own desire--like that of the naturalist--to catch a body in flight; to celebrate, in her case, human lives that, over time, both gain and lose memories, loved ones, spiritual beliefs, even a coherent sense of self. Bickmore's beautiful poems are constantly aware of what lies just outside any individual's eye, disappearing from view at the very moment of perception. There is no perfect 'capturing' of a moment, whether in word or image, despite our deeply human desire to fix the world in memory. Thus the elegant poems of EPHEMERIST simultaneously celebrate and elegize, meditating on the uncomfortable relationship we've built between earthly loss and spiritual gain: part of transcendence's paradox, which depends upon our losing some part of the world we love in order to gain a greater sense of it.--Paisley Rekdal

'Who can make a true / record from life? Who can tell the story // fairly?' Lisa Bickmore asks. In poem after penetrating poem, she tries, and--in language at once memorable in its expressiveness and exact in its ability to describe what Bickmore sees and feels--she succeeds, all the time attentive to the world outside herself and sharply attuned to the inner lives of others. Few books of poetry, once consumed, leave me feeling 'emptied...of nearly every desire, ' but Lisa Bickmore's fine collection is filled so abundantly with aesthetically, intellectually, and emotionally quenching poems that after my first journey through its pages, I felt no need to do anything other than read the book again for its myriad pleasures.--Andrea Hollander


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780997310269
  • Publisher: Red Mountain Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Red Mountain Press
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 099731026X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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