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In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception.
Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant table, Murray crafts "true stories about color," narratives of dislocation and belonging that invite readers to question their own relationship to art.
Included in this volume is a long sequential poem titled "The Seconds," which Murray composed across the second days of thirteen months. The rhythms of this diary-as-poem seize the tensions of shifting times and locales, capturing the essences of moments that are at once chosen and arbitrary.
"Codes toward an Incidental City," the sequence that closes the book, is a confederacy of forty poems that delve into the concrete familiarities and mythologies of urban landscapes, illuminating the ecstasies of city life.
| Cover Title Page Acknowledgments Contents One: Cold Sun True Stories about Color At the Lifeboat Races Speculation in Dark Air Smoking Art of a Cold Sun Anointing the Unprepared Le Corps Bleu At Les Deux Magots Restaurant Hide and Seek Elizabeth Goose in Autumn South of Spain Long Story Short To the Dogs Notes for the Interior Escape The Rainy Season Arrivesin Southern Kyushu Clearances Skibbereen Deeds North Beach Sweet Bugatti's Zoo The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy Crawfordsville Confidential The Seconds The Seconds Codes toward an Incidental City 1. In Praise of Invisibility 2. Chronicle of Choices 3. City without Archipelago 4. Tales of the Weather 5. Used News 6. Dispensations for anAfternoon Rain 7. Darkening Probabilities 8. Moon Snow 9. The Story of Minus 10. Marginal Extravaganzas 11. Homing 12. Facts about Unlucky Times 13. Opus Focus 14. Occupant 15. Unclaimed Freight 16. River through the City 17. At the Club Hula 18. Midnight Symphonies 19. High on the Flats 20. Holed Up in the Old Hotel 21. Apparitions, Approximations,Appearances 22. At the Corner Bar at the End ofIdle Street 23. A Guide to Brief Encounters 24. Overnight 25. Metro Retro 26. An Oral History of the East Side 27. The Arrangements 28. Trespasses 29. Doubleheader: A Sonnet 30. Jackhammer Blues 31. Exhumations, Evictions,Evacuations 32. At the Bus Station 33. Love in the Solarium 34. Civil Spaces 35. Sidedoor 36. Lunch on a Steel Beam 37. Poltroons and Gimcracks 38. Manholes 39. Fanfare for a Cocktail 40. Cleaning the Statues
Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant table, Murray crafts "true stories about color," narratives of dislocation and belonging that invite readers to question their own relationship to art.
Included in this volume is a long sequential poem titled "The Seconds," which Murray composed across the second days of thirteen months. The rhythms of this diary-as-poem seize the tensions of shifting times and locales, capturing the essences of moments that are at once chosen and arbitrary.
"Codes toward an Incidental City," the sequence that closes the book, is a confederacy of forty poems that delve into the concrete familiarities and mythologies of urban landscapes, illuminating the ecstasies of city life.
| Cover Title Page Acknowledgments Contents One: Cold Sun True Stories about Color At the Lifeboat Races Speculation in Dark Air Smoking Art of a Cold Sun Anointing the Unprepared Le Corps Bleu At Les Deux Magots Restaurant Hide and Seek Elizabeth Goose in Autumn South of Spain Long Story Short To the Dogs Notes for the Interior Escape The Rainy Season Arrivesin Southern Kyushu Clearances Skibbereen Deeds North Beach Sweet Bugatti's Zoo The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy Crawfordsville Confidential The Seconds The Seconds Codes toward an Incidental City 1. In Praise of Invisibility 2. Chronicle of Choices 3. City without Archipelago 4. Tales of the Weather 5. Used News 6. Dispensations for anAfternoon Rain 7. Darkening Probabilities 8. Moon Snow 9. The Story of Minus 10. Marginal Extravaganzas 11. Homing 12. Facts about Unlucky Times 13. Opus Focus 14. Occupant 15. Unclaimed Freight 16. River through the City 17. At the Club Hula 18. Midnight Symphonies 19. High on the Flats 20. Holed Up in the Old Hotel 21. Apparitions, Approximations,Appearances 22. At the Corner Bar at the End ofIdle Street 23. A Guide to Brief Encounters 24. Overnight 25. Metro Retro 26. An Oral History of the East Side 27. The Arrangements 28. Trespasses 29. Doubleheader: A Sonnet 30. Jackhammer Blues 31. Exhumations, Evictions,Evacuations 32. At the Bus Station 33. Love in the Solarium 34. Civil Spaces 35. Sidedoor 36. Lunch on a Steel Beam 37. Poltroons and Gimcracks 38. Manholes 39. Fanfare for a Cocktail 40. Cleaning the Statues
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