The Winter of J - Softcover

Percesepe, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948461595 ISBN 13: 9781948461597

Verlag: Poetry Box, The, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Winter is a season of the heart. The Winter of J is a collection of poems set in Buffalo, New York, where Gary Percesepe spent twelve years—one winter falling in and out of love with J, and taking an axe to the frozen sea inside.

though we parted that spring the roads
kept freezing and thawing between snows
until the weak sun wakened me and I realized 
our love had made me thinner.

From First Date and new love:

She was hair and bruises with a shot of ragamuffin

my thoughts slowed to the pace of
        drifting snow

to blizzards and frozen rivers blued from bridge lights, we come inevitably to Breakup—

she will appear
like a cutting stone
her laughter a fresh sword

Finding resolution at last in acceptance, but not without lingering questions:

can memory freeze in place like this?

The Winter of J is a lyrical meditation on love and temporality. With the poet, we wonder how such a short span of time can have such a lasting impact, while marveling again at the resiliency of the human heart:

the poet amounted his affair
summed it at five months
licked his ice cream cone
and melted
We know these women only from their leavings. 
We love to watch them go.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gary Percesepe is the author of eleven books, including MORATORIUM: COLLECTED STORIES 1995-2020. He resides in White Plains, New York, and teaches philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Poetry Box, The
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1948461595
• ISBN 13: 9781948461597
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
• Herausgeber: Aveningo Sanders Shawn
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