The Waker's Corridor

by Jonathan Thirkield and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

"I had a clock it woke all day," writes Jonathan Thirkield at the outset of The Waker's Corridor, a book that charts an assiduous attempt to recover lost time. Housed in elaborate and varied formal architectures, these poems navigate the disorder and gaps left by the violence of loss. All measures of time -- psychological, personal, historical, numerical -- collide and overlap in intensely lyrical verse. What results is a journey that winds through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134414
• ISBN13: 9780807134412
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

amazing craft

These poems show an amazing degree of craft--they are tight, tight, tight. Thirkield's originality just startles this reader. The poems need to be, deserve to be, savored word by word. If you want to read transparent poems that recapitulate experience (personally, a poet has to be in the Sharon Olds category to make me care about his/her crazy family)find something else. If you want poetry to be an experience, this one's a ten.