Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets)

Cover; Title Page; Note to Reader; Dedication; Contents; Blue Warp Black Weave; The Hypnotist's Daughter; Dream in Which I Love a Third Baseman; Another Story with a Burning Barn in It; That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does about Tragedy; Hypnos Is the God of Sleep; Still Early; Regarding Days; Searching Everywhere; A Great River Flows Nearby; I Was Mistaken; Begin; Through a Half-opened Door; Dear One Absent This Long While; Down to the Finest Particles of Every Spiraling Strand; Radio Crackling, Radio Gone; Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.;This uncommon debut was enthusiastically selected from 1200 manuscripts as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award. Cover Title Page Note to Reader Dedication Contents Blue Warp Black Weave The Hypnotist's Daughter Dream in Which I Love a Third Baseman Another Story with a Burning Barn in It That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does about Tragedy Hypnos Is the God of Sleep Still Early Regarding Days Searching Everywhere A Great River Flows Nearby I Was Mistaken Begin Through a Half-opened Door Dear One Absent This Long While Down to the Finest Particles of Every Spiraling Strand Radio Crackling, Radio Gone Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Carrier Pigeon #184What Language Are They Speaking? The Poet's Youth Was Almost Impossibly Glamorous and Romantic Bloom Windy Today Carrier Pigeon #23 Steady Now Rumors I Grew Up in the Dust of Many Horses Passport Carrier Pigeon #44 Man Feeding Bear an Ear of Corn A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis In the Meantime Parable of Grief Metaphor Will Get You Everywhere If the Wind Shifts Small Woman with Pictograph and Thumbnail Sketch Today Will Be Cloudy and Gray. Tomorrow It Will Rain. 3/4 Ballad Jupiter Moon May Hold Hidden Sea Dreamboat. One by One Examples Line Up by the Kitchen WindowThe Butterflies Are Coming These Are the Days of Awe Backyard Interior Negotiation If He Doesn't Bow to It He Will Slip It In His Sleeve and Depart Notes Books by Lisa Olstein Links Acknowledgments Copyright Special Thanks.

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. 

What seemed a mystery was
in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.
What seemed a memory was in fact
a dividing line. Insert bird for wind.
Insert wind for departure when everyone
is standing still. . .

Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: "stunning" and "lovely" and a bold "YES!"

Drawing Inspiration From A Multitude Of Sources, Including The Greek Isles, The 1950s Pop-psychology Book Hypnotism Revealed, The Poet's Surviving Of A Serious Illness, And Her Studies At Harvard Divinity School, Olstein Shares With Readers Experiences Both Intimate And Intellectual.--jacket. Blue Warp Black Weave -- The Hypnotist's Daughter -- Dream In Which I Love A Third Baseman -- Another Story With A Burning Barn In It -- That Magnificent Part The Chorus Does About Tragedy -- Hypnos Is The God Of Sleep -- Still Early -- Regarding Days -- Searching Everywhere -- A Great River Flows Nearby -- I Was Mistaken -- Begin -- Through A Half-opened Door -- Dear One Absent This Long While -- Down To The Finest Particles Of Every Spiraling Strand -- Radio Crackling, Radio Gone -- Department For The Promotion Of Virtue And The Prevention Of Vice -- Carrier Pigeon #184 -- What Language Are They Speaking? -- The Poet's Youth Was Almost Impossibly Glamorous And Romantic. Lisa Olstein. Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. What seemed a mystery was in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow. What seemed a memory was in fact a dividing line. Insert bird for wind. Insert wind for departure when everyone is standing still. . . Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: "stunning" and "lovely" and a bold "YES!" Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association and interpretation. Intrigued by the edges where things begin to disappear, Olstein addresses her poems to those border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, things possessed become lost. Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut volume that explores the zones of transformation and the logics of perception. Lisa Olstein is a poet intrigued by self-hypnosis and those edges in consciousness where memory slides into imagination