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Author Maier, Jennifer, 1961- author.

Title Now, now / Jennifer Maier.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 65 pages)).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Summary In Now, Now, Jennifer Maier's second poetry collection, time is of the essence. Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future--of what happened, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will? Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep. But if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward grace--even, as the title suggests, towards consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each "held light and golden in Time's mouth," and to savor something of the eternal--distilled, sparkling, already lost--inside every now.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780822979159 (electronic book)
0822979152 (electronic book)
9780822962632
0822962632