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Biographical note: Joe Francis Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1961. He studied English at St. Louis University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared in a number of books and journals including The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2001), The Possibility of Language: Seven New Poets (2001), P.N. Review, Samizdat, and The Notre Dame Review. Order of the Ordinary is his first full-length collection.
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ISBN-10: 1844710122
ISBN-13: 9781844710126
Author: Joe Francis Doerr
Title: Order of the Ordinary
Series: Salt Modern Poets
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCH1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Oct-03
Extent: 152pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 228 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
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Price: GBP 10.99
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description/annotation: Order of the Ordinary is Joe Francis Doerr’s first full collection of poems. It is 137 pages in length, and consists of eighteen poems, three of which are long poetic sequences. The poetry questions the ways the world has been traditionally ordered, and Doerr suggests new ways of perceiving consciousness.
Main description: Order of the Ordinary brings three of Joe Francis Doerr’s longer cycles, Letters to Woodhenge, Corrigenda, and F U TH A R K 2K, together with many shorter sequences and individual poems of varying length. In a collection of wide thematic and chronological proportions, the prehistoric, the medieval, and the contemporary are surveyed with equal awe and a sense of possibility. Pop culture inhabits the same intellectual terrain as the classical, and languages alien to one another attempt to make sense of themselves through experiments in meta-translation. Primarily concerned with what we know, or believe we know, of the world, Doerr questions the ways we have traditionally ordered and articulated information. In Order of the Ordinary, he invites readers to suspend their preconceptions, and offers a glimpse of his own unique revoicing of experience.
Table of contents:
Order of the Ordinary
Letters to Woodhenge
Why the Earth Shakes
[Introit]
Notes & Conversations
Backtracking
[Kyrie]
Aus-Tex Proceeds from Cahokia
Joplin
[Gloria]
Mythissippi Mud
A Handful of Dust
[Credo]
Saarinen
Burroughs
[Offertory]
Swimming Near the Guardrail
January Thaw
[Sanctus]
James Arthur Defenestrates Winter
The Delta Queen in Dire Straits
[Agnus Dei]
Brubeck Serenades the Snow Queen
Desmond Takes Five from Dying
[Communion]
Desmond & the Piasa Bird
Star-crossed
[Benedicamus]
AN. IM. DCCCCXCVII.HER ÆTEOWDE SE FEAXEDE STEORRA
f u th a r k 2k
[feoh] Wealth
[ur] The Wild Ox
[thorn] The Thorn
[ansuz] Language
[rad] Riding
[cen] The Torch
[gyfu] The Gift
[wyn] Joy
[hægl] Hail
[nyd] Need
[is] Ice
[ger] The Year
[eoh] The Yew
[peorth] The Game
[eolhxsecg] Marsh Grass
[sigel] The Sun
[tir] A Star
[beorc] The Birch
[eh] The Horse
[man] The Human Being
[lagu] The Sea
[ing] The God of Fertility
[ethel] Native Land
[dæg] The Day
[ac] The Oak
[æsc] The Ash
[yr] The Bow
[iar] A Sea Creature
[ear] The Clay
[ … ] The Unknowable
Corrigenda
I. Marwnat Owein
II. Lament for Owain
III. Lament One More for Owain
IV. War Music with Steel Guitar
V. The Last Wave By
VI. Excursus
VII. Memento:Meminisse:Minisci:
Epistolary Suite: Three Letters For Friends Gone Missing
Thou Philip, Thief of Loco-Focos
Anderson, The Snow Flies
Of The State Of Disunion, Inter Alia
Making a Harp
Thumbnails for Portrait of Sacher-Masoch
Die Kunst des Jägers
Die Kunst des Bauers
Die Kunst des Ölmalers
Die Kunst der Heilerin
The Chord
F:
B:
G#:
D#:
Sestina for the Birds
Hill Country Reservations
Sand Years
Roof Stones
A Piece of September
Shining Moment (That Is)
Antebellum Triptych
In Search of a Helen
The Narrow Sea†
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Why the Earth Shakes
A good friend of mine believes
the pre–Colombian gods
have broken their ranks of slumber
to bind again with rattlesnakes
the backbone of our continent.
They have removed the sainted masks
assigned to them by conquest,
dusted off obsidian blades,
and painted their priested clowns
for war with buffalo tail brushes.
He claims they’ve set Wyoming’s
medicine wheels in motion,
de–christened Cahokia
as the Mississippi bleeds, then
uprooted Mound City beneath the woodhenge sky.
The Piasa Bird circles
over Illinois bean fields.
And Quetzalcoatl
introduces himself
to border patrolmen with a switchblade and a smile.
The pale boulder which powdered
wild bones to grist for white bread
while Coyote’s powers slept
is rolling to an end, he says.
In his eyes, the wild children play on quiet stones.
Unpublished endorsement : I deeply admire Joe Doerr’s work for its invention, ambition, variety and independence. He belongs to no particular school or movement but writes with great authority in a number of modes. The publication of his first book is an important event. John Matthias Unpublished endorsement : Disturbs all the codes. John Kinsella |
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