Time Remaining

Préface

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Auteur

James P. Lenfestey is the author of Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain, a Minnesota Book Award finalist, and multiple collections of essays and poems, including A Marriage Book. He is also the editor of multiple anthologies, including Robert Bly in This World. *Lenfestey is a former college English instructor, alternative school administrator, marketing communications consultant, and editorial writer for the *Star Tribune, where he won several Page One awards for excellence. As a journalist, he covers education, energy policy, and climate science. He is chair of the Literary Witnesses poetry series, teaches at the Mackinac Island Poetry Festival, and lives in Minneapolis with his wife.

Texte du rabat

A spry collection of poems reflecting on art, the aging body, and the experiences of a lifetime.From author James P. Lenfestey comes a playful new collection of poems exploring everyday amazements. "Speak to me, bone, / of floating," he compels the hyoid, hidden in the throat. "I love you, letters," he confesses to our alphabet. Part travel journal, part curio cabinet, this archive of delights does its best to capture the oceanic "rumble and wash" of life with a "frail net of words."Lenfestey odes crows and ankles, tennis and jaws. He uplifts the ordinary, finding grace in surprising places: King James, cabbages, Hewlett-Packard. In poems that vary from Neruda-esque concision to the leisurely musings of the Romantics, he celebrates art in its many forms--from Rembrandt to Springsteen and beyond. Here, no subject is too small or large for the space of a poem--everything is "strange and virtuous," even the humble left hand.Rhythmic, jovial, and eminently approachable, this collection is a love song to the world--and all its complex inhabitants.

Résumé

An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.

In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet James P. Lenfestey dazzles with a suite of odes to parts of the body—heart, belly, ankle, teeth, ears, and more—and astonishment at the powers of language: “the sound of ‘n,’” our ancient alphabet, “the terror of publishing.” Known for his exuberant Chinese-style lyrics, now inspired by Neruda’s cascading Elemental Odes, Lenfestey praises Hewlett and Packard, Bruce Springsteen, “the language of crow,” fruit flies, and cabbages while recalling the “forgiveness of the Catbird” and random acts of kindness, all with his superb ear for sound, rhythm, and leaping figurative language.

Rhythmic, jovial, and eminently approachable, this collection embraces the Cetacean mind and the fearless left hand. Here, Lenfesty writes love songs to the world “as it really is: bizarro, curious, inelegant, unclean, / unfaithful, filled with delight.”