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James Cihlar
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in Omaha, Nebraska, The United States
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Review of The Shadowgraph
Many thanks to Claude Peck for his review in GLR!
“These poems have chunks of John Ashbery-like inscrutability and pinches of the movie-crazed Frank O’Hara. . . .The second half of the book consists of poems under titles of movies starring Stanwyck. Wonderfully witty as viewing companions, they function on other levels, too. . . . Employing first-, second-, and third-person pronouns, Cihlar twines Read more of this blog post »
“These poems have chunks of John Ashbery-like inscrutability and pinches of the movie-crazed Frank O’Hara. . . .The second half of the book consists of poems under titles of movies starring Stanwyck. Wonderfully witty as viewing companions, they function on other levels, too. . . . Employing first-, second-, and third-person pronouns, Cihlar twines Read more of this blog post »
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Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience
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2012
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5 editions
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Undoing
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2008
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Metaphysical Bailout
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2010
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Rancho Nostalgia
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2013
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A Conversation with My Imaginary Daughter
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2013
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The Shadowgraph: Poems
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“in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me”
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the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me”
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“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
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“Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible”
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