""These poems are the waves emanating from the gravitational fall of my runs by the Eno river,"" writes James Applewhite, ""and other travels, into a self I could not otherwise know. They are my repetitive song of belief in the possibility of presence in language."". From ""Observing the Sun"": On a bank overlooking the Eno, I feel us as lightly aligned As heads of the Queen Anne's lace, Their congregation of angles. Red sun, dilated, has us all In its sights. Against its horizon, I spread my arms like a road sign To mark earth where we are. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
By:
James Applewhite
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 66
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 4mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9780691602387
ISBN 10: 0691602387
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Pages: 74
Publication Date: 23 September 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
*FrontMatter, pg. i*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*World's Shoulder, Turning, pg. 3*The Ford, pg. 4*Crossing On Cables, pg. 5*Constructing The River, pg. 6*Just Rain, pg. 7*Tree Of Babel, pg. 8*A Wash Of Words, pg. 10*Clear Winter, pg. 11*River Within/Without, pg. 13*Winds Of These Times, pg. 14*Like A Body In The River, pg. 15*The Sense Of Light, pg. 16*When The Night Falls, pg. 17*Miles To Go, pg. 18*The Snow's Code, pg. 19*The Text Of The Sun, pg. 21*River Sequence, pg. 23*In Sight Of The Self, pg. 24*The Hard Role, pg. 26*Glassed By The Cold, pg. 28*Buzzard's Roost, pg. 29*An Orphaned Voice, pg. 31*Late February, pg. 32*House Of Seasons, pg. 33*The Sun's Tone, pg. 34*The Other, Nature, pg. 35*The Water-Machine, pg. 36*The Sex Of Divinity, pg. 37*Light Beyond Thought, pg. 38*Out Of My Circle, pg. 39*Prayer for My Son, pg. 41*The Corridor, pg. 42*Observing The Sun, pg. 44*The Bison, pg. 46*Bridge Back Toward The South, pg. 49*Driving Toward Cairo, pg. 50*Rivers, pg. 51*The Self, That Dark Star, pg. 52*Riding The Thunder, pg. 53*Thin Air On A Winter Day, pg. 54*The Consciousness-Glass, pg. 56*The Powerline Cut, pg. 57*Sleeping With Stars And Bulbs, Time And Its Signs, pg. 58*Princeton Series Of Contemporary Poets, pg. 61
Reviews for River Writing: An Eno Journal
"""River Writing is an extraordinary journal of a poet's intimate encounter with a landscape in which the self can temporarily abandon itself. In this setting, nature becomes a text, a language of past, present and future. Applewhite reads that text for us with enormous empathy and by ideal light.""—Lisel Mueller ""James Applewhite's River Writing: An Eno Journal seems to me one of the few authentic and strong American poetic sequences of his generation. Applewhite has found his true subject as a poet, and has developed a stance and style wholly adequate to the philosophical and spiritual reach of his poignant concerns.""—Harold Bloom"
