Before Recollection (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Book 161)

**From __Before Recollection__: TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD** __Ann Lauterbach__ ? The outlook such that time is told on waking, Without aid of cock or clock's crow. In fact all the birds are elsewhere, Poised on glossy page or in some fall Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision, Then mist travels, exhaling day. All else, all change, is air, Dew relenting on the blades And mirror rhymes Where water bears resemblance: A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and, In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.

From Before Recollection: TRANSCENDENTALPOSTCARD Ann Lauterbach ? The outlook such thattime is told on waking, Without aid of cock or clock's crow. Infact all the birds are elsewhere, Poised on glossy page or in somefall Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision, Then misttravels, exhaling day. All else, all change, is air, Dew relentingon the blades And mirror rhymes Where water bears resemblance: Astrut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and, In the center ofits glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.

These poems are concerned with the naming the world and with the creation of intense, present experiences that occur 'before recollection.'

The Bloomsbury Review

Lauterbach's philosophical poems are concerned with the naming of things, with our perception of emotions, ideas, and objects. . . . [a] small, memorable collection. . .