Eruv (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Eryn Green's Eruv Is The Latest Winner Of The Oldest Annual Literary Award In The United States, Which Originated In 1919 To Showcase The Works Of Exceptional American Poets Under The Age Of Forty. Green Joins An Esteemed Roster Of Past Winners That Includes Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, And Robert Hass, And As Carl Phillips, Competition Judge And Chancellor Of The American Academy Of Poets, Points Out, This Collection Reminds Us How Essential Wilderness Is To Poetry-a Wilderness In Terms Of How Form And Language Both Reinvent And Get Reinvented. Taking Its Title From The Hebrew Word For A Ritual Enclosure That Opens From Private Into Public Spaces, Eruv Includes Poems Of Love, Sadness, And Pathos While Celebrating The Power Of Ritual And Untamed Landscapes. Just As A Larger Home Can Be Fashioned Out Of Communally Shared Alleyways And Courtyards, With Passages Enabling Movement From One World To Another, Green's Poems Provide A Similar Doorway Into A Deeper Understanding Of Ourselves-- 1 -- First Walk 3 -- Thanksgiving 9 -- Here To Spread Light On 13 -- Sounds (second Walk) 15 -- Dear Beings I Can Feel Your Hands 18 -- 2 -- Anglers (so Soon) 25 -- Midnight Suns 29 -- As The Sky Contained My Garden, I Opened My Door 31 -- The Disaster Takes Care Of Everything 32 -- Adumbrations 33 -- Page Of Swords 34 -- Hymnal Oranges 35 -- Masada 36 -- Rings 37 -- Door Out. Out 39 -- Door Horizonal 40 -- Door The Heart 41 -- Do O'er 42 -- Caravan Door 43 -- Entropical (the Bulk) 44 -- 3 -- Available 49 -- Radio Silence 52 -- The Hum 53 -- Neighborhood-18th 54 -- Bon Vivant 56 -- Listening Choir 57 -- Tranquillityite 58 -- Botanica 59 -- Last Pier 63 -- Every Blessed Thing Is Elusive 64 -- Sedes (for Hanna) 65 -- Blackout 67 -- Found Well 70. Eryn Green ; Foreword By Carl Phillips. Includes Bibliographical References. Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Eryn Greens Eruv is the latest winner of the oldest annual literary award in the United States, which originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty. Greenjoins an esteemed roster of past winners that includes Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, and Robert Hass, and as Carl Phillips, competition judge and chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, points out, this collection reminds us how essential wilderness is to poetrya wilderness in terms of how form and language both reinvent and get reinvented. Taking its title from the Hebrew word for a ritual enclosure that opens from private into public spaces, Eruv includes poems of love, sadness, and pathos while celebrating the power of ritual and untamed landscapes. Just as a larger home can be fashioned out of communally shared alleyways and courtyards, with passages enabling movement from one world to another, Greens poems provide a similar doorway into a deeper understanding of ourselves. Contents 8 Foreword 10 1 First Walk 20 Thanksgiving 26 Here to Spread Light On 30 Sounds (Second Walk) 32 Dear Beings I Can Feel Your Hands 35 2 Anglers (So Soon) 42 Midnight Suns 46 As the Sky Contained My Garden, I Opened My Door 48 The Disaster Takes Care of Everything 49 Adumbrations 50 Page of Swords 51 Hymnal Oranges 52 Masada 53 Rings 54 Door Out. Out 56 Door Horizonal 57 Door the Heart 58 Do o’er 59 Caravan Door 60 Entropical (the Bulk) 61 3 Available 66 Radio Silence 69 The Hum 70 Neighborhood—18th 71 Bon Vivant 73 Listening Choir 74 Tranquillityite 75 Botanica 76 Last Pier 80 Every Blessed Thing Is Elusive 81 Sedes (for Hanna) 82 Blackout 84 Found Well 87 Acknowledgments 88