The night we're not sleeping in

The night we're not sleeping in

Sean Bishop, 1983-

Book - 2014

"The 2013 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry Selected by Susan Mitchell"--

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Subjects
American poetry.
Published
Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Sean Bishop, 1983- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
viii, 65 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781936747931
  • Foreword
  • Terms of Service
  • 1.
  • Adam Before the Advent of Psychiatry
  • A Bit of Forgiveness
  • Reading Dante in the ICU
  • Adam Explains His Implications
  • Adam Home from the Wars
  • Here's to Killing
  • Adam Relates the Last Days of Rome
  • Adam Explains the Origin
  • Red Shift
  • Adam Reports from the Distant Future
  • 2.
  • Black Hole Owners Association
  • Letter to Toss from the Airborne Plane
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [our fathers are liars.]
  • What I Asked For
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [once I believed if I wore my sadness]
  • On Believing the Night Has an End When the Night [...]
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [once more our old wounds]
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [have you been the unwinged thing]
  • At the Optometrist's I Almost Remember a Story [...]
  • Theory of Cruelty
  • Lake Bobby
  • 3. To Throw the Little Bones that Speak
  • I. [Jack of Hearts, Jack of the weakest ventricle]
  • II. [Let's say the heebie-jeebies are a kind of flea]
  • III. [My little hooked pickerels, just look]
  • IV. [Edge of the bright earth]
  • V. [The last-give or take-forever I've spent]
  • VI. [Ladies and gents, if you look to your left]
  • VII. [From a list of great evils I've chosen the best]
  • VIII. [Karen you promised you'd come but didn't]
  • 4.
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [please join me in compiling]
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [some of us are cured]
  • Joe Cuomo, Local Weatherman, Tests the Old Idea of Heaven
  • About to Hope
  • Secret Fellow Sufferers, [I've come a long way]
  • Last Supper
  • Notes Toward Basic Betterness
Review by Booklist Review

For my father, reads the dedication to this winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, and it is to fathers that Bishop returns again and again in poems that continually circle back to ideas of fathers and sons, illness and grief, and, ultimately, mortality. From the prologue poem on living, Terms of Service (The signed agrees to breath, to the lungs' soggy bellows), Bishop takes the reader on the journey of what it means to live while dying. Repetition is Bishop's linchpin as he takes us on visits to his father, who is sometimes dead, sometimes dying in a hospital, while we are guided through many moments by the biblical Adam and Cain. Several of the poems on grief and depression are addressed to Secret Fellow Sufferers, and Bishop, in starts and bursts, actively tries to move his reader from a place of darkness to a place of betterment: Feel at last, he concludes, what I / am feeling for you right now, / secret reader. --Reagan, Maggie Copyright 2014 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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