Acclaimed poet David Cope's fifth collection, Turn the Wheel, opens with a lean dawn, farewell to old loves and challenges to new, past sorrows and tenderness filling the older poet's dreams, tender petals for calm crossing. Here too is ground zero struggle for compassion, lost worlds in the valley of the sun, finale a broken note, herons under the jetliner's blast path near the shaking train stuffed with its cargo of dead dreams.

Zur Zeit liegt uns keine Inhaltsangabe vor.

Owashtanong Sunrise millennial blues Lost Loves the white-bristled sallow face in the photo Owashtanong Sunrise to you who dream Fran the reception Empire of Sorrows Solihull to Marylebone The Fourth Turn the Wheel planting salvia & marigolds in rain, Ghazal of the High Plateau Frankie's Blues dried leaves flashing before full moon Yeah, an' here he was, 'La Goulue' Considers His Lines the passing shapes when they were younger Tender Petals for Calm Crossing Lear by lanternlight The Abyss Reading the Signs My Bike Waking Ophelia The Gift Her memory comes that she can After the snowstorm Shattered The dharma at last Cross-eyed farewell The Disappearing Sages The People Themselves as the dryers rolled The Michigan Dead at Sharpsburg Traffic Backup, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Road The People Themselves After Du Bellay Clearing the Gazebo Roof Out thru the eye beyond the stars the years in a wink on the moonlit road the distorted mirror Gone (as you are) ground zero Blue Notes for New York In Silence L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle Anthrax'd Bomb Fragments, Body Parts, ER Saturday Night Whaddya get Blinding snow freeway rush hour Gone (as you are) The Broken Note In a Sentimental Mood Madadeyo in dreams Ancient of Days Dreaming: Valley of the Sun Canyon Rim to Hopi Point by Moonlight Passover Blood Market After Ronsard Emile at the Crossroad The Broken Note